3pm on 9/9. Resident of San Antonio, Naomi Shihab Nye was a longtime visiting writer at the Michener Center for Writers and a longtime friend of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, and is a fan of many Austin writers.

She is now on faculty at Texas State University in the Creative Writing Program and also continuing her travels as visiting writer far and wide.

Her most recent book VOICES IN THE AIR – POEMS FOR LISTENERS and some poems from two forthcoming books will be featured during this poetry reading/conversation.

Friday, July 20, 2018
7 pm
BookPeople

Katie Williams reads from her new book, Tell the Machine Goodnight. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Williams earned her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches writing and literature at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Space Between Trees and Absent. This is her first novel for adults.

Thursday, July 12, 2018
7 pm
BookPeople

2004 MCW alum Carrie Fountain reads from her YA debut I’M NOT MISSING.

Carrie Fountain’s poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin in 2014. I’m Not Missing is her debut novel. Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Carrie received her MFA as a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently writer-in-residence at St. Edward’s University, she lives in Austin with her husband and their two children.