Join us Tuesday, Oct. 14, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for the WSU Department of English Visiting Writers Series! Every year, VWS brings noted poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction to campus for readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. This October we welcome creative writing faculty from the nearby University of Idaho to share recent writings and experiences.
Thomas Dai is the author of Take My Name but Say It Slow (W. W. Norton, 2025), a collection of essays interrogating travel, place, Asian American identity, and other imperfect means of mapping the self. He primarily teaches courses on creative nonfiction, especially the essay in all its many forms, but is also interested in autofiction, science and nature writing, and writing that integrates visual media.
Michael McGriff is an author, editor, and translator. He is the co-author, with J. M. Tyree, of the linked story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies, which was selected as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014 and featured on Weekend Edition Sunday.
Alexandra Teague is the author of three books of poetry: Or What We’ll Call Desire, The Wise and Foolish Builders, and Mortal Geography. She is also the author of the novel The Principles Behind Flotation.
Location: The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.
