Literature Evening with Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 and Nicolette Polek '15
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A reading by alumna Devon Walker-Figueroa ’15 (poetry) and alumna Nicolette Polek ’15 (fiction).
Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 is the author of Philomath, selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Sally Keith and shortlisted for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range, and received her education from Cornell University, Bennington College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, POETRY, The Bennington Review, and elsewhere.
Nicolette Polek '15 is the author of Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020) and is the recipient of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Writers Award. Her work has been published in The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, New York Tyrant, Spike Art Magazine, Muumuu House, and elsewhere. She lives in New Haven, CT, where she attends Yale Divinity School.
Photo credit (left): Ken Barton