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St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series wraps up season with poet Thursday

Posted 4/20/16

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series will conclude its 2015-16 season with author Sandra Lim at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, in the Sykes Common Room. The event is free and open …

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St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series wraps up season with poet Thursday

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series will conclude its 2015-16 season with author Sandra Lim at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, in the Sykes Common Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), which was selected by Louise Glück for the most recent Barnard Women Poets Prize. She is also the author of a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her work is also included in the anthologies Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010), The Racial Imaginary (Fence, 2015) and Among Margins: An Anthology on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2015).

She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center and the Getty Research Institute. A recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared widely in journals such as Literary Imagination, Columbia Poetry Review, Guernica, and The Volta.

Lim was born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She works as an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Cambridge, Mass.

The Writer’s Series is sponsored by St. Lawrence’s Department of English. For more information about visiting writers, contact 229-5125.