Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Elyse Fenton’s first book, Clamor, released in 2010, received the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30, as well as Cleveland State University Press' First Book award. A Reed graduate, she received her MFA from the University of Oregon and has published poetry and nonfiction in The New York Times, Best New Poets, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. In the past few years, she's lived somewhat itinerantly in Austin, Philadelphia and Portland.