Reading with Ava Winter: Visiting Writer in Poetry

Please join the Department of English Visiting Writers Series for a reading and Q&A with alumni and poet, Ava Winter.

Ava Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis (Milkweed Editions 2024), which won the 2023 National Poetry Series. Their poetry has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, Room, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Ava holds an M.F.A. from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she is a Lecturer in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

In Transgenesis, Winter challenges our concepts of the beautiful and the sacred, delving not only into the historically marginalized, but also into the chilling subconscious of supremacy. From Łódź, Poland, to predominantly white suburban America, she regards the tender and the difficult with equal gravity, commemorating the fraught gift of survival.

This reading is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for sale from Prologue Bookshop.