Monica Ferrell and Greg Wrenn

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Monica Ferrell and Greg Wrenn will read from their recent work as part of the Writers Reading series.

Monica Ferrell is the author of three books of fiction and poetry, most recently the collection You Darling Thing (Four Way, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes (Dial Press/Random House) was named one of Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has been recognized with residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA Program at Columbia University and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). Born in New Delhi, India, she lives with her husband and children in Bennington.

Greg Wrenn is the author of the queer ayahuasca eco-memoir Mothership and the Brittingham Prize-winning poetry collection Centaur. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he is an associate English professor at James Madison University, where he weaves climate change science into his teaching. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in HuffPost, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, Writer's Digest, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.