Events

Monday, September 14, 2026  ·  3:30 p.m., Wittliff   ·  Campus Reading  ·  Series: TKL & KAP 
Wednesday, September 16, 2026  ·  6:00 p.m., KAP House  ·  Series: TKL & KAP 

Note: The Monday event will focus on Bradley Paul’s screenwriting. The Wednesday event will be a poetry reading.

Bradley Paul is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Plasma and The Animals All Are Gathering, from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His work has appeared in Smartish Pace, the American Poetry Review, Fence, and numerous other magazines. He lives in Los Angeles, where has written for television shows including Better Call Saul, Animal Kingdom, Lodge 49, and Tulsa King.

Wednesday, November 18, 2026  ·  6:00 p.m., KAP House  ·  Series: KAP House 

Poet, essayist, and visual artist, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017), her award-winning collections, along with a volume of new & selected poems, include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013), A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press 2015), and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an associate professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently at work on a novel.

Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times-bestselling author of three novels and a short story collection. Her novel Great Circle was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction.

Wednesday, March 10, 2027  ·  6:00 p.m., KAP House  ·  Series: KAP House

Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 61st Poet Laureate of Texas. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, as well as the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. She is also the editor of the anthology Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, The Moth Radio Hour, Bill Moyers, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Tasajillo, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Watermill Center, American Short Fiction, and the Academy of American Poets. She is a former Board President of the Cave Canem Foundation and the founder of Torch Literary Arts.

Wednesday, April 7, 2027  ·  6:00 p.m., KAP House  ·  Reading & Retirement Celebration  ·  Series: KAP House

Tim O’Brien is the author of The Things They Carried, which has sold more than seven million copies, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was named a New York Times Book of the Century. He received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, and In the Lake of the Woods won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. The recipient of the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, O’Brien has been elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His new novel, Clarity, will be published by HarperCollins in January 2027. He has been a distinguished faculty member of Texas State University’s MFA in Creative Writing program for over two decades.