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Jose "Cacayo" Ballesteros
Thursday, January 26, 2012
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Ballesteros migrated from Quito to Shawnee, Kansas in 1987. In 2001 he finished his graduate studies at the University of Kansas and began teaching language, literature and film at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Today he continues to teach at St. Mary’s and resides in Hyattsville, Maryland. He is a co-author of the Spanish literary anthology Voces de España (Cenage, 2004) and has published several articles about the influence the contact with the so-called “New World” had on Spanish letters of the XVIIth century. Ballesteros is also a translator of poetry. His translation of Marcial Molina Richter’s La palabra de los muertos o Ayacucho hora nona is forthcoming from Lluvia Editores in Perú. He is currently working on the first anthology in English of Ecuadorian poet Jorgenrique Adoum. In 2006, Ballesteros shared the first prize of the poetry contest A dos voces/In Two Tongues hosted by the Arlington Arts Center. His poetry has been published by Río Grande Review, Hispanic Culture Review, Visages d’ Amerique Latine: Revista de estudios iberoamericanos, Kiosk Art and Literature Magazine and on the Web at the Página del poeta invitado. He is currently finishing his first poetic manuscript.
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Jeffrey Coleman
Thursday, February 16, 2012
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Jeffrey Lamar Coleman is an Associate Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His teaching interests include contemporary multicultural American literature, literature and music of social protest, literary and cinematic representations of 9/11, and creative writing. He received a B.A. from Winthrop University, M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He is also the author of Spirits Distilled, a collection of poetry published by Red Hen Press, and editor of Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era (Duke University Press, Feb. 2012). His poetry and essays have appeared in several publications, including Blue Mesa Review, Black Bear Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, and Critical Essays on Alice Walker. With support from the Maryland Humanities Council, he is a frequent guest lecturer throughout the state and country on the history and poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Joan Maloof
Thursday, March 8, 2012
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Joan Maloof is the author of Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests (Ruka Press, 2011) and Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest (University of Georgia Press, 2005). She has published chapters in two other books, and papers in numerous journal such as Ecology, American Journal of Botany, International Journal of Environmental Studies, and the International Journal of Literature and the Environment. She earned a BS in Plant Science from the University of Delaware; an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; and a PhD in Ecology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Maloof is a professor emeritus from Salisbury University where she taught biology and environmental studies. She currently spends her time writing and giving talks to support the Old-Growth Forest Network – a nonprofit organization she founded to ensure that future generations will have ancient forests to enjoy.
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Peter Ho Davies
Thursday, April 5, 2012
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl (2007) and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World (1997) and Equal Love (2000). His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Independent, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, among others.
His short fiction has been widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998and Best American Short Stories 1995, 96 and 2001. In 2003 Granta magazine named him among its twenty “Best of Young British Novelists”. The Welsh Girl was ‘long-listed’ for the Man Booker Prize 2007, and short-listed for The Galaxy British Book Awards ‘Richard and Judy’ Best Read in 2008 .
Davies is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown . He is a 2008 recipient of the PEN/Malamud award.
Born in Britain in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents, Davies now makes his home in the US. He has taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University and is now on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Hannah Tinti
Thursday,April 19, 2012
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is published by The Dial Press and Headline. The Good Thief is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award.
Hannah is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine, and received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing. Recently, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Editor.
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Assistant Professor Karen Leona Anderson's poem "Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents," originally published in Seneca Review, has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2012 Best American Poetry. 
