Poet and novelist Susan Wheeler will read from her work as part of the The Writing Program Reading Series at 8 p.m. Nov. 30. The reading, sponsored by The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will be in Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall.
Wheeler is the author of four poetry collections: Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (1993), Smokes (1998), Source Codes (2001) and Ledger (2005). Her work has appeared in eight editions of The Best American Poetry, as well as in such journals as The Paris Review, New American Writing, Talisman and The New Yorker.
Wheeler’s novel, Record Palace (2005), was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as “an astonishment,” adding, “Susan Wheeler’s deft touch and flawless ear have produced an irresistible work, both fresh and sage.”
Bag ‘o’ Diamonds received the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America and was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Smokes won the Four Way Books Award.
Other honors include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Wheeler grew up in Minnesota and New England and has lived in the New York area for 20 years. She is on the creative writing faculties of Princeton University and the New School’s graduate program and has taught at the University of Iowa, New York University, Rutgers University and Columbia University.
The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-7130.