Fiction Writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires to Read on Campus

On Wednesday, Oct. 4, fiction writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires will be on campus to read from her work, the first event in the Fall 2023 Cardin Reading Series. The reading will be held at 1 p.m., in Mali 1 / Dana 201.

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' work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Dissent, The Root, Buzzfeed Books, The White Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and other publications. She serves as the Richards Family Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

Attached is the title story for Heads of the Colored People.

To learn more about Ms. Thompson-Spires, check out her website.

The reading is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a Q&A.

Please contact Ben Grossberg with any questions at Grossberg@Hartford.edu.