Visiting Writers Series

September 23: Sam Cohen

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Sam Cohen is the author of the surreal linked story collection Sarahland (Grand Central Publishing), which was longlisted for the California Golden Poppy Award and translated into French on Burn-Aout. Her fiction also appears in the anthologies Be Gay, Do Crime (Dzanc), Queer Flora Fauna Funga (Valiz), and Sluts (Dopamine). Her fiction appears in publications like Bomb, Fence, Electric Literature, Diagram, and O Magazine and has been supported by MacDowell. She has a PhD from USC, has taught at UC San Diego and Otis College of Art & Design, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

October 14: Lila Quintero Weaver

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Lila Quintero Weaver is the author-illustrator of the graphic memoir Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (The University of Alabama Press) and co-translator with Karina Vázquez of its Spanish edition, Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro. Original drawings from Darkroom have been exhibited at Whitman College, the Levine Museum of the New South, the Rosa Parks Museum, the Jule Collins Smith Museum, and at CentroCentro, the exhibition space of Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain. Weaver is the author of a novel for young readers, My Year in the Middle (Candlewick Press), and her work has been anthologized in Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging (NewSouth Books) and Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology (The Ohio State University Press). Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Weaver immigrated to the United States with her family in 1961, at age five. She now lives in Alabama with her husband.

November 11: Ted Dodson

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Ted Dodson is the author of the collections of poetry, An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder), At the National Monument / Always Today (Pioneer Works), Pop! in Spring (Diez), and co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books). Dodson was a finalist for the 2026 Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America and is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. He lives in Brooklyn.

December 9: Sanam Mahloudji

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Sanam Mahloudji is an American writer born in Tehran and based in London. She is the author of the novel, The Persians, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2025. Her fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Kenyon Review, the Idaho Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2018 Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and her work has been anthologized in All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body and Mother’s Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them.