Writers Series presents Fred Arroyo, Jac Jemc, and John Dermot Woods
St. Lawrence University Writers Series. Celebrating 25 years of the Viebranz Visiting Professorship. Welcome back Fred Arroyo, Jac Jemc, and John Dermot Woods for a writers craft talk and reading. Writers Series events are free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Writers Craft Talk, Carnegie 10, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Reading, Sykes Common Room, 8 p.m.
About the Authors
Fred Arroyo
Fred Arroyo is the author of Alba and Other Songs, winner of the 3rd Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize, published in a bilingual edition (2024). His Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging was shortlisted for 2021-2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is also the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions (also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize), and The Region of Lost Names. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred’s Emigrant Creek and Other Songs (poems) will appear with Letras Latinas / Red Hen Press Collaborative in 2027. He’s also working on a collection of short fictions, The Book of Manuels.
Jac Jemc
Jac Jemc teaches creative writing at UC San Diego and serves as faculty director of the Clarion Writers' Workshop. She is the author of five books of fiction, most recently Empty Theatre and False Bingo. She was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a recent finalist for the California Book Award.
Learn more about Jac at her website.
John Dermot Woods
John Dermot Woods is a writer and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY. His works include the books Mortals and The Baltimore Atrocities. He is a professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, and teaches workshops about making comics and graphic fiction.
Learn more about John at his website.