Writers Series presents Kenny Cook, Ana Maria Spagna, and Joe Wilkins
St. Lawrence University Writers Series. Celebrating 25 years of the Viebranz Visiting Professorship. Welcome back Kenny Cook, Ana Maria Spagna, and Joe Wilkins for a writers craft talk and reading. Writers Series events are free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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Writers Craft Talk, Carnegie 10, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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Reading, Sykes Common Room, 8 p.m.
About the Authors
K.L. Cook
K. L. Cook is the author of six books—three collections of stories (Last Call, Love Songs for the Quarantined, and Marrying Kind), a novel (The Girl from Charnelle), a collection of poetry (Lost Soliloquies), and a collection of essays (The Art of Disobedience: On Form, Fiction, and Influence). His stories, essays, and poems have been published in Best of the West, Best American Mystery Stories, Glimmer Train, Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, Harvard Review, Poets & Writers, and The Writer’s Chronicle, among other journals and magazines. The recipient of numerous prizes, grants, and awards, he co-directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University and is a member of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. He was a Viebranz Professor at St. Lawrence in 2007-08.
Learn more about K.L. at his website.
Ana Maria Spagna
Ana Maria Spagna writes about nature, work, history, and community. Her nine books have been recognized by the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Nautilus Book Awards, Washington State Book Awards, and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and her essays have appeared in Orion, Ecotone, North American Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. After working fifteen years on backcountry trail crews, she turned to teaching. In addition to St. Lawrence, she has taught at Antioch University, Fairfield University, Whitman College, and served as the William Kittredge Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Montana. She lives with her wife, Laurie, in the North Cascades.
Learn more about Ana at her website.
Joe Wilkins
Joe Wilkins is the author of the novels The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die; a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; and four collections of poetry, including Pastoral, 1994 and When We Were Birds. His numerous awards and honors include the Montana Book Award, an Oregon Book Award, an Oregon Career Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency from PEN Northwest, and three High Plains Book Awards. Born and raised on a sheep ranch in eastern Montana, Wilkins now lives with his family in western Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University.
Learn more about Joe at his website.