The English Department's Troy Moore Literary Series will feature two acclaimed writers this Friday, April 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library (25 Park Place NE, room 2343). This event is free and open to the public! 

The event will feature two acclaimed writers: 1) Shane McCrae, author of nearly 20 books of poetry and memoir, whose recent books of poems, Cain Named the Animal, was a finalist for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. 2) Beth Castrodale, a fiction writer whose most recent novel, The Inhabitants, won the Horror category of the 2024 Best Book Awards.

McCrae and Castrodale will give readings from their work and engage questions from the audience. Please find their bios below this message and in the attached flyer, which I hope you will forward to anyone in the community who might enjoy an hour of literature and conversation.

We hope to see you all there!

Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poems are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. New and Collected Hell, his next book of poems, will be published in February, 2025. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. Also in 2023, he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer's Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Beth Castrodale’s most recent novel, The Inhabitants, won the Horror category of the 2024 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest. The Inhabitants also won the Horror category of the PenCraft Seasonal Book Awards for fall 2024. Her début novel, Marion Hatley, was a finalist for a Nilsen Prize for a First Novel from Southeast Missouri State University Press. Castrodale also received an artist grant from the Mass Cultural Council. She was a senior editor at Bedford/St. Martin’s and is the founding editor of the book-review website Small Press Picks.