Lincoln University Presents 2024 Spring Reading Series on April 23

2024 Spring Reading Series on April 23, 2024, at 6:15 p.m. in Pawley Theatre

Lincoln University of Missouri will present its 2024 Spring Reading Series on April 23, 2024, at 6:15 p.m. in Pawley Theatre. Sponsored by the Department of Humanities and Communications, the event will feature poet Sara Henning and fiction writer Ron A. Austin.

Sara Henning is the author of the poetry collections Burn (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), a 2022 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection; Terra Incognita (Ohio University Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; and View from True North (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. She was awarded the 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Appalachian Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, Meridian and the Cincinnati Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Marshall University, where she coordinates the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series.

Ron A. Austin's short stories have been placed in Boulevard, Pleiades, Story Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review and other journals. Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, his first collection of linked stories, has received several honors including the 2017 Nilsen Prize, a 2019 Foreword INDIES GOLD Award, a 2020 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, a 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nomination and a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nomination. Austin's work has been supported by grants from the Regional Arts Commission, including a 2016 Artist Fellowship. Austin is an assistant professor of English at Saint Louis University.

Questions about the event should be directed to Lincoln University Professor of English Elijah Burrell at burrelle@lincolnu.edu.