Join us at the Guest Author Series as we welcome poet Tess Taylor to MPC! The evening will include readings from her latest works, a Q&A session and book signing session.

Tess Taylor is the author of Work & Days (Red Hen Press, 2016) and The Forage House (Red Hen Press, 2013). She has received fellowships from Amherst College, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She also served as the 2010–2011 Amy Clampitt Fellow in Lenox, Massachusetts. Taylor is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and reviews poetry for NPR’s All Things Considered. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College and lives in El Cerrito, California.

To read more about Tess and her works visit her extensive website.

 *Books will be available for purchase at the event.

When:

October 12, 2016. The event will begin at 7 o'clock.

Where:

Monterey Peninsula College, Almaden Room at the Student Center

Ticket Information:

• Tickets are just $10 each, seating is limited so email now to ensure admission
• Ticket sales are by cash or check only.

Questions about this event should be directed to Henry Marchand at hmarchand@mpc.edu

Information about the Guest Authors Series, and video of past Series events, may be found on the Guest Authors page on the Creative Writing website.

About the Series

As participants in The MPC Guest Authors Series, accomplished writers of poetry and prose come to our main campus in Monterey for public readings and discussions of writing and literature with MPC students.

Supported by The MPC Creative Writing Program, English Department, and Humanities Division, as well as The MPC Foundation and The Arts Council for Monterey County, the Series typically presents two Guest Authors each academic year, one in the Fall and one in the Spring semester.

Further enhancing the vibrant and inspiring Creative Writing environment at MPC, the Series offers extraordinary opportunity for those who pursue their own writing interest by way of our multi-genre Creative Writing curriculum to meet with and learn from diverse literary artists of consummate skill.