Justin Torres, Visiting Writer Series and Common Reading Program
Eileen Pollack is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction whose novel, Breaking and Entering, won the Grub Street National Book Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. She also is the author of Paradise, New York, a novel, and two collections of short fiction. Her creative nonfiction includes Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull and The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still A Boys’ Club. She teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan.
This event is co-sponsored by the Common Reading Program and School of Biological Sciences.
Taryn Fagerness is the owner of Taryn Fagerness Agency, a literary agency based in Tacoma, Washington, which she founded in 2009. Prior to starting her own agency, she worked at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar, California as an agent and subsidiary rights manager. She graduated from Washington State University Honors College in 2002 (Go Cougs!) and went on to attend the New York University Summer Publishing Institute.
This event is co-sponsored by the Honors College.