Sentimental Touring Club: Graduate Reading Series

Join us for a night of readings to celebrate the graduating PhD students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program. Four readers will share original works of poetry and prose. This event is free and open to the public.

ZACK ANDERSON holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His book reviews and critical writings can be found in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, and the Action Books Blog. His poems have recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, New Delta Review, and Annulet. He currently serves as a graduate editor for The Georgia Review.

BEN RUTHERFURD is a writer from Northern California whose research interests include ecocriticism and twentieth century poetics. His writing and reviews have recently appeared in The Georgia Review and Terrain.org. An essay titled “Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman’s Cascadia,” co-authored with Gerald Maa, recently appeared in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics.

SARAH SHERMYEN is a graduate editor at The Georgia Review. She has published prose in Image and The Georgia Review, and criticism in Studies in American Humor. She writes mostly about her home state, Florida.

HANNAH V WARREN is the author of Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (2024) and two chapbooks. Her translations and poetry appear in Gulf Coast, Passages North, Crazyhorse, and Denver Quarterly, among others. A Fulbright scholar and a newly minted PhD, Hannah’s writing and research interests center monstrous aesthetics, post/apocalypse literature, and representations of alterity.