Edward Carey and Carmen Giménez

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Edward Carey and Carmen Giménez will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator whose books include The Iremonger Trilogy; Observatory Mansions; Little; The Swallowed Man; and Edith Holler. His artwork has been exhibited in Britain, Ireland, Italy, and America; his essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Corriere della Serra, and La Repubblica. Named a Guggenheim fellow in 2019, his writing has been translated in over twenty-five languages.

Carmen Giménez became Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press in August 2022. She was previously the founder and publisher of Noemi Press and a professor of English at Virginia Tech. A queer Latinx poet, she is the author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; and Milk and Filth, a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Hermitage Foundation.