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Oct. 7th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room 

Dinaw Mengetsu is the author of four novels, Someone Like Us (Knopf, 2024), All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), all New York Times Notable Books. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, �Ჹ������’s, Granta, and Rolling Stone. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, Guardian First Book Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list in 2010. His work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MFA from Columbia University. He is the director of the Written Arts Program at Bard College and the director of the Center for Ethics and Writing.

Oct. 28th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room 

Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books), was one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her second novel, Libertie was one of the New York Times Best 100 Books of 2022 and a Best Historical Fiction book. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, Elle,
Buzzfeed, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Features Director at �Ჹ������’s
Bazaar. Her third novel is forthcoming from Flatiron.

Nov. 11th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, most recently All the Possible Bodies, published by Alice James Books in 2025. Individual poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The Progressive. Organizations ranging from the Cave Canem Foundation and the NAACP to the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America have recognized Pollock’s work with awards and grants. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY and lives with his family in the lower Hudson Valley. 

Feb. 10th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room

Raymond Antrobus is the author of three poetry titles: The Perseverance, All The Names Given, and Signs, Music. Antrobus’s poems have been added to the UK's GCSE syllabi, and his poetry has won the Ted Hughes Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2019 he became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for the best work of literature in any genre. He also authored the memoir, The Quiet Ear (A TIME book of the year in 2025) and two children’s picturebooks, including Can Bears Ski?, which became the first story broadcast on the BBC entirely in British Sign Language. Antrobus advocates for several D/deaf charities, including Deaf Kidz International and the National Deaf Children’s Society. Antrobus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020, appointed an MBE in 2021, and named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2026.

Mar. 17th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room 

Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the National Book Award for Fiction and the California Book Award, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, the Inside Literary Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. A 2025 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy, he’s also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel, We the Animals was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives Los Angeles, and is a professor of English at UCLA.

Apr. 7th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room 

Megha Majumdar is the author of two bestselling novels. A Guardian and a Thief is an Oprah’s Book Club pick, a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award, longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and the winner of the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. A Guardian and a Thief is also a New York Times notable book, a Washington Post notable book, and one of the ten best books of the year per The Atlantic and TIME Magazine.

Her debut novel, A Burning, was a TODAY Show Read With Jenna book club pick and longlisted for the National Book Award, among other honors.

Majumdar is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has also been supported by the Whiting, Civitella Ranieri, and Hawthornden foundations. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, she now lives in New York.

Apr. 14th | 6:30 p.m. | Goodhart Hall | Music Room 

Canisia Lubrin is the author of five books, Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain (2025), Code Noir and Bright Machine (2026). Her honours include a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She has been twice a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. The World After Rain earned Lubrin her second OCM Bocas Prize for poetry. She is associate professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA and the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. Code Noir, Lubrin’s fiction debut and winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has 59 drawings by celebrated visual artist Torkwase Dyson. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin lives in Whitby.