Graham was recently appointed Boylston Professor at Harvard University and divides her time between Iowa and Massachusetts. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, Constance Merritt holds B. A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln, where she currently resides. Merritt is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations and an Academy of American Poets College Prize. Her first collection of poems, A Protocol of Touch, won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and was published this year. Harjo received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas and lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
All events are free and open to the public.
Bookselling and signing follow the readings. A grant from the Delmas Foundation supports our commitment to diversity in the visiting writers we bring and the student internships we offer.