Thomas Grattan, Paul Lisicky, and Devon Walker-Figueroa

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Thomas Grattan, Paul Lisicky, and Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Thomas Grattan is the author of the novels The Recent East and In Tongues. The Recent East was a New York Times editor’s choice, nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. In Tongues was nominated for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in several publications including One Story and The New York Times Book Review.

Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Song So Wild and Blue, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects. A recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Provincetown Public Library, and elsewhere, he has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, the University of Texas-Austin, and Rutgers University-Camden, where he edited the journal StoryQuarterly from 2012 through 2026. He lives in Brooklyn and Southern Louisiana.

Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 is originally from Kings Valley, Oregon. She is the author of Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, 2025), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry, and Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), a National Poetry Series winner, Levis Reading Prize recipient, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. An assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, her work appears in The New York Review of Books, Bennington Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.​​