Monica Ferrell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA '23

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Monica Ferrell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA '23 will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Monica Ferrell is the author of three books of fiction and poetry, most recently the collection You Darling Thing (Four Way), 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.

Dawn Lundy Martin, an American poet, essayist, and memoirist, is the author of five books of poems including Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, Martin’s newest book of poems, Instructions for The Lovers (2024), was a National Book Critics Circle Finalist. She is currently writing a memoir titled When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA '23 is the author of the novels Before All the World, which was named an NPR Best Book of 2022, and Sadness Is a White Bird, for which he received the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Honor, among other honors. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review's Daily, Poetry Daily, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. Rothman-Zecher holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars.