UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Renowned poet Lynn Emanuel will be at Penn State Feb. 9-12 as this year’s Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence. Emanuel will give a free public reading during her visit at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium at University Park.
The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence program brings a well-known poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer to campus each year to share their expertise and work with students in undergraduate creative writing classes and the graduate Creative Writing Program. It is funded primarily through the generosity of Steven Fisher, a 1970 Penn State graduate in English, with additional support from the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, University Libraries, the Department of English, and the College of the Liberal Arts.
Emanuel is the author of six books of poetry including “The Nerve of It,” a selection of poems for which she received the Lenore Marshall Award by the Academy of American Poets. She has also received the Academy’s Eric Matthieu King Award, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Poetry Series Award; and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
Emanuel has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at numerous venues including the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson Program. Her poetry has been published and reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, LA Review of Books, and Publisher’s Weekly. Her poems have been translated into Russian, Spanish, Mongolian, French and Urdu.