Jen Julian & Mackenzie Kozak Alumni Homecoming Fiction & Poetry Reading
Schedule
Thu Oct 16 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
UNCG Alumni | Greensboro, NC
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The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and the Class of 1949 will host a fiction and poetry reading by UNCG alums Jen Julian and Mackenzie Kozak on Thursday, October 16th at 6PM in the UNCG Alumni House. A part of the Department of English’s homecoming celebration, the event will be preceded by a reception. It is free and open to the public.JEN JULIAN is a writer from Eastern North Carolina. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro. Her short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, was the winner of the Press 53 Fiction Prize and was published in 2018, and her debut novel, Red Rabbit Ghost, is upcoming through Orbit/Redhook, 2025. Recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast Magazine, The Harvard Advocate, swamp pink, hex, Bourbon Penn, Third Coast Magazine, Wigleaf, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other places. She has won numerous awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net, and had her work recognized as notable in The Best American Short Stories 2023. Jen is a 2016 Clarion alumna, fond of fairy tales and spec-fic, ambient music, all the different varieties of moss, and listening to you tell your ghost stories. She and her fluffy ginger cat currently live in the mountains of North Georgia, where she teaches creative writing at Young Harris College and acts as fiction editor for storySouth. She is currently working on her third book, a fantasy novel set in Appalachia.
MACKENZIE KOZAK is the author of no swaddle (University of Iowa Press, 2025), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. She holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, where she served as poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. Mackenzie’s poetry appears in Boston Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, jubilat, Missouri Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor at Orison Books and works as a therapist specializing in grief counseling.
For directions and information about parking, visit: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Alumni%20House
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Where is it happening?
UNCG Alumni, 404 College Ave,Greensboro, North Carolina, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
