Description

Sandra Lim, winner of the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness, reads from her book and participates in a Q&A session with the audience. A book sale and signing follow the reading.

The event is free and open to all, but please register. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street, and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, or to register offline, please contact the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.

Sponsors

The events is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, VCU Libraries, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, with additional funding provided by the family of Larry Levis.

About the Author

Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collections The Wilderness, selected by Louise Glück as winner of the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the 2006 Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in Boston Review, Guernica, VOLT, MiPOesias and the 2015 edition of The Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center and the Getty Research Institute and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Image: Sandra Lim, by Young Suh