The UND English Department is excited to announce that poet and editor Katie Manning will be giving a reading and Q&A in this fall's Virtual Speaker Series in Writing, Editing, & Publishing. The evening's talk is free and open to anyone who's interested in poetry, creative writing, and editing! Join us online, via Zoom, at 7:00 PM CT on Thursday, November 7 for this event. (See below for registration information.)

Katie Manning is the author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (Main Street Rag), and six chapbook collections: How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press), 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books), and The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Wipf & Stock). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, HAD, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Stirring, SWWIM, and Verse Daily. She has received the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and The Thimble Prize, among other honors and nominations. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review.

The English Department's Virtual Speaker Series in Writing, Editing, & Publishing sponsors readings and presentations by practicing creative writers, editors, and publishers. Events in the Virtual Speaker Series are free and open to all.