On Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 1 p.m., fiction writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires will be on campus to read from her work. This will be the first event in the Fall 2023 Cardin Reading Series. The reading will be held in Mali 1 / Dana 201. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.
Ms. Thompson-Spires is the author of Heads of the Colored People (Simon and Schuster, 2019), winner of the 2019 PEN Open Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, The Hurston/Wright Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award. The story collection was included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated. Ms. Thompson-Spires serves as the Richards Family Assistant Professor at Cornell University. To learn more about Ms. Thompson-Spires, check out her website.
Attached you will find a sample of Ms. Thompson-Spires' short fiction.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Ben Grossberg at grossberg@hartford.edu.