Join the Creative Writing program for our first Geneseo Literary Forum event of 2024!

"Writer, Translator, Editor: A Reading & Career Talk with Anni Liu."

Award-winning poet Anni Liu will give a reading and career talk on February 29, 2024 at 4:30pm in Doty 300. Liu’s debut collection, Border Vista, “intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America.” Border Vista won the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a Best Poetry Book of 2022 by the New York Times.

Anni Liu was born in Xī’ān, Shǎnxī, (西安, 陕西) in the year of the goat. Her work is featured in Poetry, Ploughshares, Ecotone, and elsewhere. In addition to writing and translating, she works as an editor at Graywolf Press. 

This Geneseo Literary Forum event is hosted by the Creative Writing program and the English department, with additional support from the Office of the Provost and the Center for Social Justice Studies (American Studies, Black Studies / Africana Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies).