Richie Hofmann and Jon Pineda
April 16, 5 p.m.
Horn Gallery
Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems is The Bronze Arms. He is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review. His honors include the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. He is the author of six books: two novels, three poetry collections, and one memoir. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including the New York Times Magazine and Sierra Club, and has twice received the Library of Virginia Literary Award (one for fiction and one for poetry). A core faculty member in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, where he has taught in their Latin America MFA program in Rio de Janeiro and in Buenos Aires, Jon teaches at the College of William & Mary and has served on the teaching faculty at Kundiman, a “national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American Literature.”
ZZ Packer
April 14, 4:30 p.m.
Cheever Room, Finn House
ZZ Packer’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story, Ploughshares, GRANTA, Zoetrope All-Story, Best American Short Stories 2000, Best American Short Stories 2003 and 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories.
She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the American Academy of Berlin Prize. Her collection of stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award, an ALEX Award and was a National Book Award 5 under 35 winner.
Iain Haley Pollock
February 5, 2026
Cheever Room, Finn House
Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (University of Georgia Press, 2011), Ghost, Like a Place (Alice James Books, 2018), and All the Possible Bodies (Alice James Books, September 2025). Pollock has received several honors for his work, including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bin Ramke Prize for Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Monday, March 16
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Storer 116, Brandi Hall
The Kenyon Review welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to campus.
Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer and The Committed, is the recipient of the 2025 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. During his visit, he will spend time with Kenyon students before offering a public reading and conversation.
Past Events
All events sponsored in whole or in part by The Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Ohio Arts Council.