Discover authors and speakers who are visiting the Katherine Anne Porter House. Find out more about our guests by reading the biographies below.
Wednesday, Sept. 25th, 2024, 7:00 pm
Amanda Churchill is a writer living in Texas. She is a Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Fellow. Her debut novel The Turtle House, was inspired by her beloved grandmother, a Japanese war bride. Her work has been featured in Hobart Pulp, Witness, River Styx, and other publications.
Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, 2024, 7:00 pm
Cassandra Lane’s memoir We Are Bridges, which won the Louise Merriwether First Book Prize, was praised as “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory” (NPR). Shuttling between the twentieth-century South and contemporary Los Angles, it traces the effects of racial violence on three generations of one family. Cassandra Lane lives in Los Angeles, and her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, The Millions, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.
Wednesday, Feb. 5th, 2025, 7:00 pm
Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. He is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. His first novel, We the Animals, was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives in Los Angeles and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The Lights. He is also the author of the novels Leaving Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School, as well as a book-length essay, The Hatred of Poetry. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, among other honors. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College.
