Poetry-in-the-Round Presents New Faculty Member Courtney Sender

Poetry-in-the-Round is pleased to present the first literary event of the 2024-2025 season: new creative writing faculty member in the Department of English, Courtney Sender, will read from her work at 5 p.m., November 7, in the Chancellor's Suite of the University Center. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be available for sale. This event is free and open to the public.

About the Author

Courtney Sender is the author of In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me (WVU Press '23), called "fierce" by Alice McDermott and Danielle Evans, "miraculous" by Ann Patchett, and "deep and howling" by The Boston Globe. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review and many others. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times' Modern Love, The Atlantic and Slate, and she is staff writer for iHeartMedia's No.1-charting podcast Noble Blood. A Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, Courtney holds an MFA in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School.

About the Series

Poetry-in-the-Round has brought some of the best contemporary writers from around the world to Seton Hall University for the past three decades. Some of those visitors have included Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Nadine Gordimer, C.K. Williams, Jonathan Franzen, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Adrienne Rich and many others. The series has worked to bring established and up-and-coming new writers to the attention of Seton Hall students and the community. Dr. Nathan Oates, professor of English, is the director of the series. For more information please contact him at: nathan.oates@shu.edu or 973-761-9388.

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