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DURHAM, N.H. 鈥� Poet Elizabeth Powell and short story writer Jensen Beach will read from their work and hold a Q & A session Thursday, April 6, 2017, at 5 p.m. at the 麻豆app鈥檚 Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, as part of the UNH Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Powell is the author of 鈥淭he Republic of Self,鈥� a New Issue First Book Prize winner, and 鈥淲illy Loman鈥檚 Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances,鈥� which won the Robert Dana Prize in poetry. A Pushcart Prize winner, she has received Vermont Council on the Arts grants and a Yaddo fellowship. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Handsome, Hobart, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Slope, Sugarhouse Review, Ploughshares, Post Road and elsewhere.

Powell is editor of Green Mountains Review and is an associate professor of writing and literature at Johnson State College. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in writing and publishing. Born in New York City, she lives in Vermont with her four children.

Beach听is the author of two听story collections, most recently 鈥淪wallowed by the Cold.鈥� He holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an M.A. and B.A. in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the B.F.A. program at听Johnson State College, where he is the fiction editor of Green Mountains Review. He is also a faculty member in the听M.F.A. program in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has听appeared in Public Space, Cincinnati Review, Fifty-Two Stories, Ninth Letter, the Paris Review and The New Yorker, and online at Tin House, N+1, Kenyon Review and American Short Fiction, among others.

Beach has received scholarships from the Napa and Sewanee Writers鈥� conferences, and is one of the web editors at Hobart. He lives in Vermont听with his wife and children.

For more information, contact the English Department at (603) 862-1313. The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation.