

Thursday, February 9, 2023
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Hubbard Building, Room 201
424 N Riverfront Dr, Mankato, MN 56001
This event is free and open to the public.
Craft Talk
3 – 4 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5
This event is free and open to the public.
Reading
7:30 – 8:30 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. Her most recent hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton 2020), was selected as the winner of the 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry, the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award. Her literary and visual work has appeared widely, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Best American Poetry (2020, 2021), Guernica, The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, and many others. Griffiths is the recipient of fellowships, including Cave Canem, Kimbilio, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Promise (Random House), is forthcoming in 2023