Visiting Writers Series Soham Patel & Lauren Russell October 18, 2018
Channel: Visiting Writers Series
Date: 01/11/2018

Soham Patel is a Kundiman fellow and an assistant editor at Fence and The Georgia Review. Her chapbooks include “and nevermind the storm” (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2013) “New Weather Drafts” (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and “in airplane and other poems” (Oxeye Press, 2018). She is the author also of the full-length collections” to afar from afar” (Writ Large, 2018) and “ever really hear it” (Subito, 2018).

Lauren Russell is the author of “What’s Hanging on the Hush”(Ahsahta, 2017). She was the 2014-2015 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the 2016 VIDA Fellow to the Home School, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in poetry, and the 2018 Cave Canem Fellow to The Rose O’Neill Literary House. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in boundary 2, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.