The UND Department of English is excited to host the first event in this fall's Virtual Speaker Series in Writing, Editing, and Publishing! Join us at 7:00 PM CT on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, for a reading by Joseph Holt, an alum of UND's English MA program and the author of the short story collection Golden Heart Parade! This Zoom webinar will feature a reading by Holt, followed by a live Q-and-A for the webinar attendees.

Joseph Holt’s writing has appeared in The Sun, The Saturday Evening Post, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He graduated from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he also received an AWP Intro Journals Award in fiction. Holt has taught at Catapult, the Loft Literary Center, the American College of Norway, and the University of Minnesota. He now serves on the MFA faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Holt is an active marathoner and host of North Star Nugs, a radio show featuring jam band music. Find him at: holt.ink.

All events in the Virtual Speaker Series in Writing, Editing, and Publishing are free and open to the public.