On March 2nd and March 16th, join us for a series of readings by faculty from RIT's Creative Writing program! Each faculty member will read aloud from a selection of their creative writing work and provide time for questions and answers. Come meet local published writers from within the community and discover some new reads!

About our presenters:

Albert Abonado is the author of JAW (Sundress Publications). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Albert co-hosts New Ground Poetry Night. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and RIT. 

Brian Wood is the author of Joytime Killbox (BOA, 2019). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, and his work earned him a Ludwig Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing, as well as the James Phelan Award for Short Fiction and Familiar Essays. HIs first novel, Terror Book, comes out next year.

Liza Flum’s first book, Hover, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2025. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2020, AGNI, Poet Lore, Narrative, Meridian, Washington Square Review, Lambda Literary, and Zócalo Public Square. She is a recipient of a Barbara Deming individual artist grant, and her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Summer Words, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She currently works as a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Robert Glick is the author of the short story collection Two Californias (C&R Press, 2019) and an Associate Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches creative writing, electronic literature, and the occasional course on zombies. His work has been published in Diagram, Denver Quarterly, and Gettysburg Review. More recently, excerpts from his just-completed novel, The Asterisms, have won competitions in Summer Literary Seminars and New Ohio Review. He lives in Rochester with his partner-in-crime Anne Royston, their new baby Evan, and their dog Toby. He spends much of his time looking out the snow-streaked window in search of foxes. 

If you need ASL (American Sign Language) Interpreting, please check the box on our registration form. Given 48 hours notice, we are able to provide ASL interpreting services for our programs. Please contact Sarah Dennison (sarah.dennison@libraryweb.org) for further information.