Faculty Reading with Zoe Tuck & Devon Walker-Figueroa '15

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join two new visiting faculty in Literature for the 2024–2025 academic year, Zoe Tuck and Devon Walker-Figueroa ‘15, for a reading welcoming them to campus and celebrating their recent work. Readings by both will be followed by a short Q&A and book signing.

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Western Massachusetts, where she co-hosts the But Also reading series with her partner, Britt Billmeyer-Finn. She is the author of Bedroom Vowel (BUNNY Presse, 2023) and Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014), as well as the chapbooks The Book of Bella (Doublecross Press), bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's Peach Woman, and Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna* Collaborative). A member of Belladonna* Collaborative and Futurepoem, she also co-edits Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown. She teaches creative writing and literature classes through Threshold Academy and elsewhere.

Devon Walker-Figueroa’s debut poetry collection Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021) won the National Poetry Series, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. Her second poetry collection, Lazarus Species, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2025. Her work can be found in The Nation, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the 2024–2025 academic year.