EVENTS: 2020 - 2021

EVENTS: 2020 - 2021


Virtual Caxton Club
Reading & The Davenport Prize Announcements in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry
featuring Rachel Swearingen & Laura Donnelly
Friday, May 21, 2021
4:00 p.m. CST

Bruce Fulton is the inaugural occupant of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He is the co-translator, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction; general editor of the Modern Korean Fiction series published by the University of Hawai’i Press; co-author with Youngmin Kwon of What Is Korean Literature? (2020); recipient of a 2018 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature, and editor of the forthcoming Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories (2021). He is the co-recipient, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of several translation awards and grants, including the first National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work, and the first residency awarded by the Banff (Canada) International Literary Translation Centre for the translation of a work from any Asian Language. His most recent translations, with Ju-Chan Fulton, are the novels Mina by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press, 2018), The Catcher in the Loft by Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng (Codhill Press, 2019), and One Left by Kim Soom (University of Washington Press, 2020).

Virtual Caxton Club | Dr. Bruce Fulton
"What is Korean Literature? A lecture and a reading, with Q&A."
Friday, April 30, 2021
4:00 p.m. CST


Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, winner of the 2018 New American Press Fiction Prize (October 1, 2020). Her stories and essays have appeared in VICEThe Missouri Review, Kenyon ReviewOff AssignmentAgniAmerican Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. In 2019, she was named one of 30 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a PhD from Western Michigan University, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

Caxton Club Virtual Reading
featuring Monica Prince '12 and Josh Tvrdy '17
Friday, January 29, 2021
4:00 p.m. CST


Monica Prince '12 teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). She is the managing editor of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and the co-author of the suffrage play, Pageant of Agitating Women, with Anna Andes. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Josh Tvrdy '17 is a poet and teacher from Tucson, Arizona. A winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize, he recently graduated with an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University, where he received the 2019 Academy of American Poets Prize. He won Gulf Coast's 2018 Prize in Poetry, and he was a fellow at the 2017 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. His work can be found in (or is forthcoming from) The Adroit Journal, The Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Quarterly West, Court Green, and elsewhere.

Magali Roy-Féquière has had her work published in African American Review, Cave Canem Anthology XIII, Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review, Playa Anthology: 2019, and the Demeter Press Anthology Transitioning, Reflections on Menopause and Reproductive Aging. Having completed a three-year Cave Canem fellowship, she continued to apprentice at VONA, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Bread Loaf-Orion, and has been a recipient of a PLAYA Summer residency. She teaches gender and women’s studies at Knox College and is the author of Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (Temple University Press). Magali holds a doctorate in Latin American literature from Stanford University. Desiderata: to infuse her poems with non-aggressive perceptions and movement. 

Gina Franco was awarded the 2019 CantoMundo Poetry Prize,  for her book, The Accidental (University of Arkansas Press), which was listed by NBC Latino as one of “10 books from 2019 by and about Latinos you shouldn't miss.” Franco is also the author of The Keepsake Storm (University of Arizona Press). She has recent or forthcoming publications with 32 Poems, American Poetry Review, AGNIBeloit Poetry JournalImageLos Angeles ReviewNarrativePoets.orgPoetryQuarterly West, and West Branch. She teaches poetry writing, 18th & 19th-century British literature, Gothic literature, poetry translation, Borderland writing, and religion and literature at Knox College, where she was awarded the Philip Green Wright-Lombard Prize for distinguished teaching. In previous summers, she was a Bread Loaf fellow, a Letras Latinas D.C. Residency recipient, and a faculty member at Image journal's Glen Workshop.

Laura Donnelly is the author of Midwest Gothic, selected by Maggie Smith as the winner of the Richard Snyder Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, fall 2020). Donnelly’s first book of poetry, Watershed, won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in Indiana ReviewColumbia Poetry ReviewRhinoPassages NorthFlywayMississippi Review and in the online publications of Missouri ReviewHarvard ReviewPoets.org and elsewhere. Her book reviews appear in Kenyon Review Online and she co-authors a column on nature and the arts for the Sterling Nature Center in Upstate New York. Originally from Michigan, Donnelly received an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Her work has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the I-Park Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Oswego.

Virtual Caxton Club
Reading & The Davenport Prize Announcements in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry
featuring Rachel Swearingen & Laura Donnelly
Friday, May 21, 2021
4:00 p.m. CST



B.J. Hollars '07 is the author of several books, including The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders, Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, and Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America. His latest book, Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail, is forthcoming in the fall of 2021. He teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Adam Soto '10 is web editor at American Short Fiction. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a former Michener-Copernicus Foundation Fellow. He lives with his wife in Austin, TX, where he is a middle school English teacher and a musician. His short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Catapult, and The Fairy Tale Review, among other locations. His debut novel, This Weightless World, will be published by Astra House this fall and was listed in LitHub's The Hub as a highly anticipated novel. His collection of ghost stories, Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, will be published in fall 2022 by Astra House.

Nicholas Regiacorte was born and raised in southern Maine. Since that time, he’s lived in Florida, gone to college in Virginia, worked on roofing crews, worked in a deli, and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He’s had the good fortune to live in Italy, once on a Fulbright year in Campania, the second time as a Visiting Professor in the ACM's Florence Program. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, 14 Hills, Copper Nickel, New American Writing, Descant, Bennington Review, Colorado Review and elsewhere. His book of poems American Massif is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Regiacorte is an Associate Professor of English and serves as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Monica Berlin is the author of Elsewhere, That Small (2020), Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live (2018), and the chapbooks Your Small Towns of Adult Sorrow & Melancholy (essays) and From Maybe to Region (poems). With Beth Marzoni, Berlin is co-author of No Shape Bends the River So Long (2015) and the chapbook Dear So & So. Newer work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including RHINO and DIAGRAM. The Richard P. & Sophie D. Henke Distinguished Professor of English, Berlin currently serves as associate director of the Program in Creative Writing at Knox College, where she has been on faculty since 1998.

Caxton Club Virtual Reading
featuring BJ Hollars ‘07 and Adam Soto '10
Friday, February 5, 2021
4:00 p.m. CST