SLU Writers Series Presents Viebranz Anniversary Reading with Robin Hemley

Registration is no longer required for this event. 

Accessibility copies for tonight’s reading can be downloaded via Dropbox at the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9kmcllwz0ksmljlewr62o/h?dl=0&rlkey=5zych79li2h88izciomo4fy1t

Masks are not required.  A limited number of disposable masks will be available on-site; we encourage you to bring your own mask if this is your preference.

Readings will NOT be broadcast or recorded.

Robin Hemley was the inaugural Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, appointed for the 2000-2001 academic year.

His numerous works of fiction and nonfiction include most recently the novel Oblivion: An After Autobiography (Gold Wake Press, 2022) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (University of Nebraska, 2020). According to writer Ira Sukrungruang, referring to Borderline Citizen, the author “traverses the globe interrogating ideas of home and (inter) national identity. Hemley brings to light the power of place, the echoes of hope even in desolation.” He has also authored creative writing textbooks including Turning Life into Fiction (Story Press, 1994), A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel (University of Georgia Press, 2012), and The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (coauthored with Xu Xi, Bloomsbury, 2021). In 2005, Hemley founded the NonfictioNOW Conference, the world’s leading international conference in nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, as well as residencies at MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at the Iowa Writers Workshop, the Writing Program at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and currently directs the George Polk School of Communications at Long Island University and co-directs the MFA in Writing and Publishing.