On March 28-29, 2011, the English Department will be hosting a visit by novelist Erin McGraw and poet Andrew Hudgins, both of Ohio State University.

Erin McGraw is the author of five books, including her most recent novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard (2008). Her stories and personal essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and Image, among other magazines. She is currently at work on a new novel; Hangings and Acquittals: Judgments in Contemporary Fiction, a collection of essays about fiction and narrative; and Bad Eyes, a collection of personal essays.

Andrew Hudgins is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (2010). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and many other journals. His volume Saints and Strangers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and After the Lost War was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of The Poet's Prize. He is also a recipient of the Writer Bynner Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Haines Prize for poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, he was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

TWO events are scheduled for Monday, March 28:

• At 4:00 p.m., Andrew Hudgins will be giving a talk on Robert Frost titled “Inside ‘Out, Out--.’”
• At 8:00 p.m., Erin McGraw will be reading from her work.

TWO further events are scheduled for Tuesday, March 29.

• At 4:00 p.m., Erin McGraw will give a talk titled “What Did You Mean to Say?” The talk addresses the “polemical impulse in writing” and gives special attention to the work of Flannery O’Connor.
• At 8:00 p.m., Andrew Hudgins will be reading from his work.

All events will be held in Dow Rooms A & B on the Hillsdale College campus and are free and open to the public. For more information, please call Dr. John Somerville at (517) 607-2431.