The Distinguished Writers Series Presents Shara McCallum

Join the Creative Writing Program for an evening reading and conversation with award-winning poet Shara McCallum. Shara McCallum—who holds a PhD in poetry and African American and Caribbean literature from Binghamton University—is the author of seven books, including Behold, forthcoming in 2026; No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry; and Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Caribbean Poetry Prize and the 2018 New England Poetry Club Motton Prize. Recognition for her work includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Musgrave Medal, a Witter Bynner Fellowship, an NEA Poetry Fellowship, the Oran Robert Perry Burke Nonfiction Award, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, among others. She is presently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State.

Books will be available for sale and signing during a reception following the reading. This event is supported by the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Office of the Provost, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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