The Michener Center for Writers is excited to welcome guest faculty members Kristen Arnett and Cecily Parks for the Fall 2026 semester.
Join us for a reading of their works, followed by a Q&A and reception at the Texas Union Theater on the University of Texas campus on Wednesday, September 30th at 6:00pm.
For additional details and to RSVP visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2001074032298. We hope to see you there!
About the Authors:
Kristen Arnett is the author of the novels Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (Riverhead Books, 2025) which was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize, and was awarded a silver medal from The Florida Book Awards, With Teeth (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction, and the New York Times bestselling debut Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her upcoming short fiction collection, Party at the End of the World, will be published by Riverhead Books in Summer 2027.
Dr. Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections: The Seeds (Alice James Books, 2025), O’Nights (Alice James Books, 2015), and Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008). The recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, she is the guest editor of Best New Poets 2025 and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2016) . Her poems appear in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Nation, The New Republic, and several editions of The Best American Poetry.