Jenny Boully and Monica Ferrell

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND AVAILABLE TO STREAM | Jenny Boully and Monica Ferrell will read as part of the Writers Reading series.

Jenny is a poet and essayist and is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction. Her latest book is Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life.

Monica is the author of three books of fiction and poetry, most recently the collection You Darling Thing (Four Way, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes (Dial Press/Random House) was named one of Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has been recognized with residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA Program at Columbia University and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). Born in New Delhi, India, she lives with her husband and children in Bennington.