Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell - The Distinguished Writers Series at the Newhouse Center

Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell
Tuesday, Oct. 18 | 4:30pm

Nina Revoyr was born in Japan and raised in Tokyo, Wisconsin and Los Angeles. She is the author of four novels. Her second novel, Southland, was an Edgar Award finalist, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was a Los Angeles Times "Best Book" of 2003. Her third novel, The Age of "Dreaming," was a finalist for a 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Revoyr's new novel, "Wingshooters," was published in March of 2011. It was an IndieBound "Indie Next" selection and one of O: Oprah Magazine's "Books to Watch For." Library Journal called it "hauntingly provocative," and Booklist described it as "a shattering northern variation on "To Kill a Mockingbird.'" Revoyr has taught at a number of colleges, including Cornell, Occidental and Pitzer; she is also vice president of a non-profit children's service organization. She lives in Los Angeles.

Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage and the author of "Running the Dusk." He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a Ph. D. at Duke. His work has been published widely in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the UK, the US and Canada. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, he has received grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, the Arvon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, the University of Birmingham and elsewhere. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa calls "Running the Dusk" "the gutsy work of a long-distance runner who possesses the wit and endurance, the staying power of authentic genius." "Running the Dusk" was a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the UK. In 2010, Campbell was the first poet of colour to win the Aldeburgh Prize.

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• nina revoyr
• christian campbell
• wellesley
• wellesley college
• distinguished writers series
• newhouse center
• susan and donald newhouse
• humanities
• running the dusk
• southland
• the age of dreaming
• wingshooters

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