Welcome to fiction and poetry reading in the Elliston Poetry Room featuring Lily Meyer and Sarah Rose Nordgren!

Lily Meyer is a translator, critic, and author of the novels Short War (Deep Vellum, 2024) and The End of Romance (Viking, forthcoming). A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, NPR Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.

Sarah Rose Nordgren is a poet, writer, and cultural organizer. She is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Best Bones (University of Pittsburgh, 2014) and Darwin’s Mother (University of Pittsburgh, 2017), the creative nonfiction book Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal, winner of the Essay Press Book Prize (Essay Press, 2024), and the prose chapbook The Creation Museum (Harbor Editions, 2022). Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Narrative, and have been featured by PBS Newshour, The Slowdown podcast, Poetry Society of America, and Poetry Daily.

This event is free and open to the public. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library on the Uptown Campus, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown campus.