Paul Lisicky is the author of five books: Lawnboy, Famous Builder, The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, and The Narrow Door, forthcoming in January 2016. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, and other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michener/Copernicus Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Cornell, Sarah Lawrence, and New York University. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he edits the journal StoryQuarterly.

The English Department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College presents

The 2015-2016 Working Writers Reading Series

Maaza Mengiste, novelist & The Student Awards

Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 4pm, Book Signing at 5:30pm

Ada Limón, poetTuesday, November 17, 2015; 1pm,

Book Signing at 2pm Gregory Pardlo, poet(Pulitzer Prize winner)

Tuesday, March 15, 2016; 12pm, Book Signing at 1pm

Paul Lisicky, memoiristThursday, October 15, 2015; 12pm,

Book Signing at 1pm

All readings are in the Richard Harris Terrace, and all book signings are in the campus bookstorePlease RSVP to jschneiderman@bmcc.cuny.edu

Ada Limón is the author of four books of poetry: Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, Sharks in the Rivers, and Bright Dead Things. Limón has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. She is currently working on a book of essays and a novel. She works as a freelance writer and creative writing instructor while splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California (with a great deal of New York in between).

www.adalimon.com

Gregory Pardlo’s collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and is a current finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem received the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo’s poems appear in The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Pardlo lives with his family in Brooklyn.

Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar and the author of the novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Among other places, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Guardian, Granta, BBC Radio, TAR, and Lettre Internationale. She is the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Emily Harvey Foundation. Her next novel, The Shadow King, is set in Fascist Italy and Ethiopia in the early days of WWII, and is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.