Michael Dumanis and Samantha Hunt

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Michael Dumanis and Samantha Hunt will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Michael Dumanis was born in the Soviet Union. His two books of poems are Creature (Four Way), a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, the Big Other Book Award, and the National Jewish Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Additionally he co-edited the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande). He is on the Literature Faculty of Bennington College and the editor of Bennington Review.

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; The Seas about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages.