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VOICES Reading Series – Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite

The VOICES Reading Series welcomes the writers of Books that Cook.

Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite are co-editors of the prize winning collection “Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal.” Cognard-Black is professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she teaches creative writing, women’s literature and the novel. The author of “Narrative in the Professional Age” as well as the co-editor of “Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing and Advancing Rhetoric,” Cognard-Black also publishes short fiction under the pseudonym J. Annie MacLeod.

Goldthwaite is professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, where she teaches writing. Her books include “The Norton Reader,” “The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing,” “The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students,” and “Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams.”

Contributors will include author and blogger Tenaya Darlington, writer and photographer Howard Dinin, writer and editor Caroline M. Grant, poet April Linder, and St. Mary’s professor emeritus and former Poet Laureate of Maryland Michael S. Glaser.

VOICES Reading Series – Francisco Aragón

The VOICES Reading Series welcomes Francisco Aragón (poet).

A native of San Francisco, Francisco Aragón is the author of “Glow of Our Sweat” and “Puerta del Sol” as well as the editor of “The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry.” His work has appeared in various anthologies, including “Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies”; “American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement”; “Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality”; and “Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad.” Aragón’s poems and translations have appeared in various print and web publications, including Chain, Crab Orchard Review, Chelsea, and The Journal as well as the online journals Jacket, Electronic Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily. Aragón holds degrees in Spanish from Berkeley and New York University, as well as an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from the UC-Davis and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. Aragón is the Director of Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the editor of “Canto Cosas,” a book series out of Bilingual Press that publishes Latino poetry.

VOICES Reading Series – Paul Hanstedt

The VOICES Reading Series welcomes Paul Hanstedt (memoir).

Paul Hanstedt received his Ph.D. in Victorian Literature in 1996 and has not used it since. He is a professor of English at Roanoke College, where, among other things, he directed the revision of a campus-wide general education program, developed an innovative writing-across-the-curriculum program, coordinated the implementation of the college’s e-portfolio system, edited a national literary journal, Roanoke Review, and taught classes ranging from travel literature to creative fiction. Hanstedt is the recipient of several teaching awards, including a 2013 State Council for Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, and received a Fulbright to aid curricular revision in Hong Kong. His short stories and articles have been published in a variety of venues, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Puerto Del Sol, Confrontation, Kyoto Review, Dadwagon, Roads and Kingdoms, Pedagogy and Writing on the Edge. Hanstedt has authored two books: “Hong Konged,” a travel memoir, and “General Education Essentials,” a faculty introduction to current trends in liberal education. He is also a regular essayist on Virginia Public Radio.

The VOICES Reading Series is co-funded by the English Department, the Environmental Studies Program, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, the International Languages and Cultures Department, the Alumni Office, the Twain Lecture Series on American Humor and Culture, Slack Winery, and the Arts Alliance of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

VOICES Reading Series – Kate Milliken

The VOICES Reading Series welcomes Kate Milliken (short story fiction).

Kate Milliken’s stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, Fiction, New Orleans Review, and Santa Monica Review, among other literary journals. A graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars as well as the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop, and several Pushcart Prize nominations, Milliken has also written for television and commercial advertising. Her debut collection of stories, “If I’d Known You Were Coming” was chosen for the 2013 John Simmons Short Fiction Award by author Julie Orringer. Having moved around for most of her life, between parents and half a dozen cities, Milliken is now happily settled in the suburban wilds of Northern California with her husband, Adam Karsten, and their two kids. She is currently working on a screenplay based on her short story, “Mad River,” as well as completing a novel. Milliken teaches on behalf of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

The VOICES Reading Series is co-funded by the English Department, the Environmental Studies Program, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, the International Languages and Cultures Department, the Alumni Office, the Twain Lecture Series on American Humor and Culture, Slack Winery, and the Arts Alliance of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.