{"id":66749,"date":"2025-12-09T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/amanda-gunn-gwen-kirby-mfa-alumni-reading\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:51:10","slug":"amanda-gunn-gwen-kirby-mfa-alumni-reading","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/amanda-gunn-gwen-kirby-mfa-alumni-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Gunn &amp; Gwen Kirby: MFA Alumni Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix\">\n<p class=\"tribe-events-schedule__datetime\">\n\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__date tribe-events-schedule__date--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--date\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amandagunn.com\">Amanda Gunn<\/a>\u00a0grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she studies Black poetry. Her recent work appears in\u00a0<em>Poetry,\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly\u00a0Journal,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Narrative Magazine<\/em>. Her debut collection,\u00a0<em>Things I Didn\u2019t Do With This Body<\/em>, was published in 2023\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/books\/things-i-didnt-do-with-this-body\/\">by Copper Canyon Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gwenekirby.com\">Gwen E. Kirby<\/a>&#8216;s debut collection\u00a0<em>Shit Cassandra Saw\u00a0<\/em>is available from Penguin Books wherever books are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/shit-cassandra-saw-stories\/9780143136620\">sold<\/a>. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Carleton College, where she teaches creative writing and literature. Kirby\u2019s stories appear or are forthcoming in\u00a0<em>One Story,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Tin<\/em>\u00a0<em>House<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Guernica,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Mississippi Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ninth Letter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blackbird<\/em>,\u00a0<em>SmokeLong Quarterly<\/em>, and elsewhere. Guest editor Aimee Bender selected her story \u201cShit Cassandra Saw . . .\u201d for\u00a0<em>Best Small Fictions 2018<\/em>. It also appears in the 2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wigleaf.com\/2018top501.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wigleaf Top 50<\/a>\u00a0and was anthologized in\u00a0<em>Flash Fiction<\/em>\u00a0America, out from Norton. Her story \u201cMidwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories\u201d won the 2017\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disquietinternational.org\/the-program\/contests-scholarships\/contest-scholarship-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DISQUIET Literary Prize for Fiction<\/a>. She has received two Pushcart Prize special mentions and has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Rivendell Writers\u2019 Colony, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She was the 2018-2019 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy and worked for many years at the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__venue tribe-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__events-link\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events tribe-common\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__container\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"tribe-common-c-btn-border tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__button\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__button-text\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"tribe-events-subscribe-dropdown-content\" aria-label=\"View links to add events to your calendar\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdd to calendar\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"tribe-events-subscribe-dropdown-content\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__content\">\n<ul class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list\">\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--gcal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGoogle Calendar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--ical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiCalendar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--outlook-365\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOutlook 365\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--outlook-live\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOutlook Live\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@ Amanda Gunn\u00a0grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. 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