PLNU Poetry Day: A Reading by Taylor Byas
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Join Point Loma Nazarene University for a reading by author Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. hosted by the Department of Literature, Journalism, Writing, and Languages as part of the 2024 M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series.
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is a Features Editor for The Rumpus, a Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Literature, an Editorial Board Member for Beloit Poetry Journal, and an Editorial Advisor for Jackleg Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, from Soft Skull Press, which won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award and the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, and Resting Bitch Face, forthcoming in Fall of 2025. She is also a co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol X: Alabama from Texas Review Press, and of Poemhood: Our Black Revival, a YA anthology on Black folklore from HarperCollins.
Doors for the event open at 6:30 p.m. for general admission seating. Book sales to follow the event courtesy of La Playa Books.
The 2nd Annual M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series will include writers Taylor Byas (PLNU Poetry Day), Anna Gazmarian, Kiersten White, and Matt Bell. For more info, please visit our website: https://www.pointloma.edu/news/2024-visiting-writers-series
Point Loma Nazarene University
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