In the fall and spring semesters, Holy Family University’s Distinguished Writers Series returned to campus with three award-winning writers.
In October, the Distinguished Writers Series featured Airea D. Matthews, author of the award-winning poetry collection Simulacra, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. For her writing, Matthews earned a 2020 Pew Fellowship as well as the 2017 Margaret Walker For My People award. A Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Kresge Literary Arts Fellow, Matthews is a founding member of the transdisciplinary art studio The Teeth Factory.
In March, the Distinguished Writers Series featured a conversation between Krys Malcolm Belc, author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child, and Torrey Peters, author of the novel Detransition, Baby.
Belc’s work has appeared in Granta, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere and has been anthologized in Best of the Net 2018 and Wigleaf Top 50. Belc has won contests at Redivider and Pigeon Pages and his work has been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
Peters is also the author of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker.
The Holy Family University Distinguished Writers Series is a free series dedicated to promoting diversity, social awareness, and critical thinking, as well as furthering the University’s mission and core values of community, respect, integrity, experiential learning, vision, and service.