“Writing: A Life” Reading and Q&A with Samantha Zighelboim

Join us at the Bishop Library Atrium or online for a reading and Q&A session with Samantha Zighelboim. Readings are free and open to all. Registration required for Zoom session.

Samantha Zighelboim is the author of The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books, 2018), and the co-translator of Equestrian Monuments by Luis Chaves (After Hours Editions, 2022). She is a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts (NYFA/NYSCA) Fellow in Poetry, a recipient of a Face Out grant from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), and the recipient of the 2016 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation from The Poetry Foundation. Her poems, translations and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Boston Review, Lit Hub, The Guardian, PEN Poetry Series, Guernica, and Fanzine, among others. Samantha lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design at The New School.