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Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Ellyn Gaydos and Jeff Sharlet on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

Ellyn Gaydos received an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University. Her first book, Pig Years, came out in 2022 and was a New Yorker best book of the year. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Paris Review, and others. She lives in New York with her family and works on a vegetable farm. 

Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books, most recently The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, one of The New York Times 100 Books of the Year, and a New Republic book of the year. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and a VQR Editor-at-Large.