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Visiting Writers Series | Emily Kingery
Mount Mercy’s Visiting Writers Series will host Emily Kingery, author of Invasives.
Event details
Come to see poet Emily Kingery as she joins us for the Visiting Writers Series in collaboration with St. Ambrose University.
Emily will live read and discuss her debut book, Invasives, followed by a Q&A and book signature session. The event will be held in Flaherty Community Room 204 in Basile Hall.
About
Emily Kingery is a poet and professor of English at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Her work appears widely in journals and has been selected for several honors and awards in poetry and prose. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at the Midwest Writing Center, a non-profit organization supporting writers in the Quad Cities community.
In Invasives, a young woman remembers her turbulent small-town adolescence and works to take control of her own story.
Visiting Writer Series
When you study at Mount Mercy, you learn not only from your fellow students and our faculty, but also from the many prestigious writers who visit campus and share their expertise and vision.
Here are the past visiting writers, including poet laureates, award-winning writers (National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize), best-selling novelists, and more.
Sandra Benitez, Chris Bohjalian, Charles Baxter, Ethan Canin, Ana Castillo, Lan Samantha Chang, K. L. Cook, Stuart Dybek, Larry Heinemann, Khaled Hosseini, Bharati Mukherjee, Thisbe Nissen, ZZ Packer, Josef Skvorecky, Barry Unsworth, Mary Helen Stefaniak, Benjamin Percy, Samrat Upadhyay, Daniel Orozco, Karen Russell, Cristina Henriquez, Keith Lesmeister, Patricia Park, Chuy Renteria
Amy Butcher, Anne-Marie Cusac, Joy Castro, Matt Freedman, Patricia Hampl, Alex Kotlowitz, John T. Price, Scott Russell Sanders, Patricia Foster, Tim Wise
Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, Robert Haas, Ted Kooser, Li-Young Lee, Heather McHugh, Czeslaw Milosz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Susan Power, Gary Soto, William Stafford, Camille Dungy, Michael Sowder, Frank X Walker, Jennifer Perrine, Drew Dellinger, James McKean, Aaron A. Abeyta, YaNi Davis, Hannah Saltmarsh, Danez Smith, Donika Kelly, Carol Tyx
"The visiting author event was a wonderful opportunity to connect with an author whose book we had read in class." —Katie Goetz ’23
"Visiting writers let you see and know the process of a professional." —Casey Birkecht '13
"The joy of the Visiting Writer Series is about connecting with a kindred soul. Aspiring writers are able to discuss their own fears and doubts with someone who has experienced the journey." —Kim Flugga-Ciha ’11
