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The English & Philosophy Department brings a renowned poet, fiction writer or essayist to campus each semester, to meet with students and to offer a public reading of their work.

2026 Visiting Writers

Franny Choi

Franny Choi

Choi's books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). They are currently the Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA, a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge, a non-profit that supports writers, especially of color, committed to imagining radical change. They have a new essay collection forthcoming from Ecco Press in 2027. 

Rena Mosteirin

Rena J. Mosteirin

Mosteirin is the author of Disaster Tourism (BOA Editions) and Experiment 116 (Counterpath Press). She is also the co-author, with James E. Dobson, of Moonbit (punctum books) and Perceptron (punctum books). She teaches at Dartmouth College, owns Left Bank Books in Hanover, NH, and is the co-editor of Bloodroot Literary Magazine.

Previous Visiting Writers

2025

  • Helena Brooks-Motl
  • Kelly Link

2024

  • Forrest Gander
  • Stephanie Stinson

2023

  • Stephanie Burt
  • Jeffrey  Young

2022

  • Mary-Kim Arnold
  • Joanna Howard

2021 

  • Julie Carr
  • Caryl Pagel