I'll be back in North America in March 2009, and this is one of the first appearances I'll be making; at the Lannan Literary Program, Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.;

The GU Lannan Programs, an enterprise in the Department of English of Georgetown University, stages readings, seminars, talks, and symposia from the world of contemporary writing. Generous support for the Programs is provided by the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, NM, USA.

Lannan Literary Programs

Georgetown University

March 17, 2009

Eileen Myles and Nalo Hopkinson

Seminar: 5:30 p.m. ICC 462

Reading: 8:00 p.m. Copley Formal Lounge

Eileen Myles is a poet, playwright and performance artist who is also currently writing a novel called The Inferno and an opera called Hell. Her books include Skies, (2001), Cool for You (2000), School of Fish, (1997) and Chelsea Girls (1994). Her plays are Joan of Arc: a spiritual entertainment, Patriarchy, a play, Feeling Blue, Pts. 1, 2 & 3, Modern Art, My Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, and a solo performance piece, Leaving New York. She is a frequent contributor to Art in America, The Village Voice, The Nation and other periodicals, and is a Professor of Literature at University of California, San Diego.

Nalo Hopkinson’s science fiction and fantasy novels include Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), which received the Locus Award for Best New Writer; Midnight Robber (2000), nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel; Skin Folk (2001), which won the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; and The Salt Roads, which received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Also an editor and co-editor of four fiction anthologies, Hopkinson lives in Canada, and teaches writing at various programs around the world.