
Event Details
Join Terrain.org nonfiction editor Elizabeth Dodd as she hosts award-winning writers Juan J. Morales, Rachel Richardson, and Simmons Buntin for an online reading from their new books, followed by Q&A! Registration
Event Details
Join Terrain.org nonfiction editor Elizabeth Dodd as she hosts award-winning writers Juan J. Morales, Rachel Richardson, and Simmons Buntin for an online reading from their new books, followed by Q&A!
Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.
Monday, February 24, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET
Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father and grew up in Colorado. He is the author of four poetry collections, including his latest, Dream of the Bird Tattoo, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Recent poems have appeared in The Laurel Review, Breakbeats Vol. 4 LatiNEXT, Acentos Review, Terrain.org, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, and Poetry. Juan has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo, and Longleaf Writers Conference, and he has served as the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press. He lives in Pueblo, Colorado and is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College.
Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother (Norton, 2025) and two other poetry collections, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave. She is the co-founder of Left Margin LIT as well as a former Stegner and NEA Fellow. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, APR, and elsewhere. In 2024 she was named an inaugural Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and has completed FFT2 wildland firefighter training. She teaches as Distinguished Visiting Writer in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College, and lives in Berkeley, California.
Simmons Buntin is the author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far (Trinity University Press, 2025) plus two collections of poetry: Bloom and Riverfall. He is also the co-author of a collection of sustainable community case studies, Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places, and co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. His writing and photography have appeared in Orion, North American Review, Kyoto Review, ISLE, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and a marketing and communications director at the University of Arizona. He lives in Tucson and writes at urbanwild.substack.com.
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February 24, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm View in my time