English Faculty to Showcase Creative Work
Three English and creative writing faculty members will present “Out on the Town: Truman Creative Writing Faculty Read at Aorta” at 7 p.m. April 15 at the Aorta, 107 S. Franklin St.
James D’Agostino, professor of English, is the author of “The Goldfinch Caution Tapes,” winner of the 2022 Anthony Hecht Prize, “Nude With Anything,” winner of the New Issues Press Poetry Prize, and “Build Your Castle Out of Sugar Cubes All Your Enemies Have Tongues,” which won the Steel Toe Books Poetry Book Prize. He has published chapbooks which won prizes from Diagram/New Michigan, CutBank Books and Wells College Press. His poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Forklift Ohio, Conduit, Mississippi Review, TriQuarterly, Flyway and elsewhere.
Brian Heston, assistant professor of English, is the author of “Latchkey Kids,” Finishing Line Press, “If You Find Yourself,” Main Street Rag Publishing and “Sing, Dark Times,” Seven Kitchens Press. His poems and stories have appeared in such publications as the Southern Review, Witness, Prairie Schooner, Rosebud, Coolest American Stories and Ghost Fishing, and are upcoming in The Georgia Review.
James D’Agostino, professor of English, is the author of “The Goldfinch Caution Tapes,” winner of the 2022 Anthony Hecht Prize, “Nude With Anything,” winner of the New Issues Press Poetry Prize, and “Build Your Castle Out of Sugar Cubes All Your Enemies Have Tongues,” which won the Steel Toe Books Poetry Book Prize. He has published chapbooks which won prizes from Diagram/New Michigan, CutBank Books and Wells College Press. His poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Forklift Ohio, Conduit, Mississippi Review, TriQuarterly, Flyway and elsewhere.
Brian Heston, assistant professor of English, is the author of “Latchkey Kids,” Finishing Line Press, “If You Find Yourself,” Main Street Rag Publishing and “Sing, Dark Times,” Seven Kitchens Press. His poems and stories have appeared in such publications as the Southern Review, Witness, Prairie Schooner, Rosebud, Coolest American Stories and Ghost Fishing, and are upcoming in The Georgia Review.
Abby Manzella, assistant professor of English and creative writing, is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the short story collection, “Ripples into the Wild,” forthcoming in 2027, and “Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements,” which won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award. Other awards include winning Honorable Mention for an MLA Book Prize and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title recognition. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in such places as The Threepenny Review, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review and The Boston Globe.
