Joyelle McSweeney In Conversation with Michael Dumanis

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join Michael Dumanis in a Q&A with visiting poet Joyelle McSweeney.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama, and prose, most recently Death Styles (Nightboat, 2024), a daybook contending with the loss of a newborn child and Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020), which was called "frightening and brilliant" in the New Yorker and received the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Prize. With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits Action Books, an international press of innovative American literature and world literature in translation. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in South Bend, Indiana, and teaches at Notre Dame.