Annie Liontas is the next speaker in the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, Oct. 26, in Gifford Auditorium. She will participate in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and then read from her work at 5:30 p.m.
Annie Liontas
Liontas is a guest of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Her debut novel, “Let Me Explain You” (Scribner, 2015), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as an Editor’s Choice and was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a 2015 Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title.
She is co-editor of the anthology “A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors” and recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, BOMB, Guernica, Ninth Letter and Lit.
Since 2003, Liontas has been dedicated to urban education, working with teachers and youth in Newark, N.J., and Philadelphia.
