Visiting Writers Series: Leni Zumas and Pamela Thompson
The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to a reading of fiction and poetry by Leni Zumas and Pamela Thompson.
Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City). Her work has appeared in New York Tyrant, Quarterly West, Harp & Altar, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. A 2008 fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches creative writing at Hunter College.
Pamela Thompson is a graduate of Yale College and the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she received the Slosberg memorial award for fiction and poetry. Following the publication of her novel Every Past Thing in the fall of 2007, she was a MacDowell Colony fellow. She lives with her family in Worthington, Massachusetts, and works as the editorial director of Interlink Books. With Hilary Plum, she is the founder of Clock/Root Books, which specializes in publishing literature in translation.
For more than 40 years, the VWS has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for public readings of new work. VWS events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and the Juniper Initiative, the UMass Arts Council, the UMass Alumni Association, the Vice Provost of Research, the English Department, and the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
All events are free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.