Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Morgan Parker
Join us in welcoming poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writer’s Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.
Parker is the author of the young adult novel “Who Put This Song On?”; and the poetry collections “Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night,” “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé,” and “Magical Negro,” which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu–we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.
More About Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her work has appeared widely, in such publications as The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and Best American Poetry; a Broadway playbill; and two Common albums. Parker is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, a WGA member, and a Sagittarius. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Shirley.
SUPPORT
The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.