A Reading and Conversation with Emily Lee Luan and Katherine Hill

Join us for a reading and conversation with the award-winning writers, Emily Lee Luan and Katherine Hill, both faculty members in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Adelphi University.

Emily Lee Luan (she/her) is the author of a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Lithub, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University–Newark and lives in Brooklyn.

Katherine Hill (she/her) is the author of two novels: (Scribner, 2013) and (Ig Publishing, 2020), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. With Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre and Juno Richards, she is also coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia University Press, 2020),which won the PROSE Award for Literature and an Honorable Mention in the MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship. Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including AGNI, The Believer, Bookforum, Colorado Review, The Common, The Guardian, Literary Review, n+1, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review Daily, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Post45, Story, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Tin House. Her writing has been supported by the New York Public Library, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo.

Host or Publisher Adelphi University Low-residency MFA Program