Poet and novelist Monica Ferrell reads at the Rose O’Neill Literary House

Author Monica Ferrell will be at Washington College on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 as part of the fall Literary House Series. The Literary House Press will be debuting its newest limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring Ferrell’s work at this event.

The free and public reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the Literary House enclosed porch, and will be followed by a book and broadside sale and signing.

Monica Ferrell is the author of three books of fiction and poetry, most recently the poetry collection “You Darling Thing” (Four Way, 2018). Her novel “The Answer Is Always Yes” (Dial Press/Random House, 2009) was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, “Beasts for the Chase” (Sarabande Books, 2008), was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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 she is associate professor of creative writing at Purchase College (SUNY). She was born in New Delhi, India, and lives with her husband and children in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

For more information on this event or the Literary House, visit the website at www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse, or view the annual Literary Events Calendar brochure here: www.washcoll.edu/live/files/9229-2019-20-literary-events-brochure.

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