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Virtual Caxton Club Reading & The Davenport Prize Announcements in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry featuring Rachel Swearingen & Laura Donnelly

May 21 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Join us via Zoom: https://knox-edu.zoom.us/j/89713803406

Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, winner of the 2018 New American Press Fiction Prize (October 1, 2020). Her stories and essays have appeared in VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. In 2019, she was named one of 30 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a PhD from Western Michigan University, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Laura Donnelly is the author of Midwest Gothic, selected by Maggie Smith as the winner of the Richard Snyder Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, fall 2020). Donnelly’s first book of poetry, Watershed, won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Rhino, Passages North, Flyway, Mississippi Review and in the online publications of Missouri Review, Harvard Review, Poets.org and elsewhere. Her book reviews appear in Kenyon Review Online and she co-authors a column on nature and the arts for the Sterling Nature Center in Upstate New York. Originally from Michigan, Donnelly received an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Her work has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the I-Park Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Oswego.