POSTPONED: Writers in Camden: Paul Lisicky and Emma Copley Eisenberg

Please note: per a mandate from President Barchi in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, this event and others occurring between March 12 and April 3 have been cancelled. 

Writers Paul Lisicky (Later, The Narrow Door) and Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl) read from new work. 

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Paul Lisicky is the author of Later, The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, Fence, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he has served on the Writing Committee since 2000. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Camden, and is the editor of StoryQuarterly.

Emma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction, essays, and reportage have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, AGNI, The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The New Republic and others. She is the recipient of fellowships or awards from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and Lambda Literary. Her first book of nonfiction, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia was published by Hachette Books in January 2020. She is a fiction editor for AGNI and lives in Philadelphia, where she directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts. 

This event takes place in the Digital Commons, 101 Cooper Street.