Next up in the GVSU Writers Series is Khaled Mattawa, on Wednesday, September 22, at 7 p.m. in Room 2263 Kirkhof Center, on the Allendale Campus.
Born in Benghazi, Libya in
1964, Mattawa immigrated to the U.S. when in his teens. The author
of four books of poetry, most recently Tocqueville (2010), he has
translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and co-edited
two anthologies of Arab American literature.
Mattawa, who teaches in the
Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, is the recipient of many prestigious awards including, a
Guggenheim fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton
University, and three Pushcart Prizes.
For more information, contact Visiting Professor Amy McInnis
Norkus in the Writing Department, at [email protected], or (616) 331-8719.
