Samyak Shertok, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, will be the featured speaker for the Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Visiting Authors Series in spring 2025.
Shertok’s talk is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in room 300B of the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center. He will present a reading from his poetry collection No Rhododendron.
The event is free and open to the public. It is co-hosted by ATU’s Nebo literary magazine and the Department of English and World Languages.
Originally from Nepal, Shertok was the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University. He currently serves as an assistant professor of creative writing at Hendrix College.
His accolades include being a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize. He has also received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Shertok’s literary achievements include the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize.
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