Dante Micheaux and Shawna Kay Rodenberg MFA '12

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Dante Micheaux and Shawna Kay Rodenberg MFA '12 will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Dante Micheaux is author of Circus (Indolent Books, 2018), which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T.S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd (Syracuse University Press, 2010). Micheaux’s other honors include the 2020 Ambit Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the New York Times Foundation. In January 2024, he served as the Guest Editor of Poem-a-Day. Photo by Jay Jamnadas

Shawna Kay Rodenberg MFA '12 is the author of Kin, a debut memoir deemed “essential reading” by the Washington Post and “gorgeously gritty” by Oprah Daily. She received an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars in 2012 and was an Alumni Fellow in 2022.  Her essays have appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, and Elle. In 2016, Shawna was awarded the Jean Ritchie Fellowship, and in 2017 she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. A registered nurse, mother of five, and grandmother of two, she lives on a hobby goat farm in southern Indiana.