Oct
5
Programs in Writing: Readings with Kathy Fagan and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Please join the MFA Programs in Writing readings by
Kathy Fagan and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
All are welcome to join! Reception to follow
Monday, October 5, 2026
Humanities Gateway 1030
@12pm
Kathy Fagan’s newest collection is The Unbecoming (W.W. Norton, September 2026). Her sixth book, winner of Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. Fagan is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, former NEA recipient, and longtime educator. You can find her in her poems, at her website kathyfagan.com, and in a very tiny olive grove in Tuscany.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels—Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize—and a story collection, Likes. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of an O. Henry Award, a Whiting Award, and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles.
