February 6 & 13: Join Us for Two Readings in February

The Department of English and Creative Writing is excited to host two readings in February, as we start off 2025. Please join us for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with readings by Andre Dubus III on February 6, 2025, and by Ellyn Gaydos and Jeff Sharlet on February 13, 2025—both at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs. 

Andre Dubus III's nine books include the New York Times' bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Such Kindness, was published in June 2023, and a collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024. He is also the editor of Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories, (Godine, 2023.) Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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.