OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Mark Wunderlich will read as part of Writers Reading. 

Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s newest book, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism. She is also the author of a novel, Picking Bones from Ash, and a memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press in 2021. He is the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars and served as chair of the poetry jury for the 2019 National Book Awards.