Writers Series presents two-for-one faculty showcase

The new year will bring new authors from around the world to the campuses of Grand Valley State University as the Grand Valley Writers Series continues. Two members of the Grand Valley community will receive the spotlight during the series' January 28 event, when Glenn Shaheen and Oindrila Mukherjee share excerpts from their award-winning works.

The faculty reading will take place from 7:30-8:45 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Center on the Allendale Campus.

Shaheen, assistant professor of writing, is the author of the poetry collection Predatory, which won the 2010 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is also the author of the flash fiction chapbook Unchecked Savagery. His second collection of poetry, Energy Corridor, will be released this year.

Mukherjee, assistant professor of writing, hails from India where she worked as a reporter for the country’s oldest English language newspaper, The Statesman. Her work has been published in Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, The Greensboro Review, Arts & Letters, The Silk Road Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, Jaggery and elsewhere.

For more information about the Grand Valley Writers Series, contact Mukherjee, series coordinator, at [email protected] or (616) 331-8034.