Past Visiting Writers

We have been privileged to welcome the following writers to our campus for readings and discussions of their works and host the following events, all as part of the Two Rivers Reading Series on the Coon Rapids Campus:

Spring 2019

Autopsy
Donte Collins

Fall 2018

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah

Spring 2018

There’s Something I Want You to Do
Charles Baxter

Fall 2017

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Featuring Sun Yung Shin, David Lawrence Grant, and Andrea Jenkins

Spring 2017

May Day
Gretchen Marquette

Fall 2016

Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota
Featuring Alexs Pate, Shannon Gibney, and Taiyon Coleman

Spring 2016

Sông I Sing
Bao Phi

Fall 2015

In Reach
Pamela Carter Joern

Spring 2015

The Peripatetic Coffin
Ethan Rutherford

Fall 2014

Black Aperture
Matt Rasmussen

Spring 2014

Nothing Better
Tyler Page

Fall 2013

Book of Fire
Cary Waterman

Madness: A Bipolar Life.
Marya Hornbacher

Spring 2013

Cul de Sac
Scott Wrobel

Spunk
Penumbra Theater Event

Fall 2012

Pretend the World
Kathryn Kysar

Spirit Car
Diane Wilson

Spring 2012

Split
Swati Avasthi

Invisible Strings
Jim Moore

Fall 2011

Two Trains Running
Penumbra Theater Event

From Crooked Rib
Nurrudin Farah

Spring 2011

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Penumbra Theater Event

Driving to Heaven
Tracy Youngblom

Woman Lake and Rain Dance
Richard Broderick

Fall 2010

Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith

The Last Communist Virgin
Wang Ping

Spring 2010

Fiction on a Stick: An Anthology of Minnesota Writers
Featuring John Reimringer, Sarah Stonich, Diane Wilson, and Sean Hill

Blood Ties and Brown Liquorby

Sean Hill

Fall 2009

Radio Golf
Penumbra Theater Event

The Weight of All Things
Sandra Benitez

The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg
Geoff Herbach

Spring 2009

The Latehomecomer
Kao Kalia Yang

National Monuments
Heid Erdrich

Fall 2008

Fences
Penumbra Theater Event

Spring 2008

The Piano Lesson
Penumbra Theater Event

Singing the Bones Together
Angela Shannon

Fall 2007

Jack and Rochelle
Lawrence Sutin

Spring 2007

Real Karaoke People
Ed-Bok Lee

The Summer of Ordinary Ways
Nicole Helget

Fall 2006

Disobedience
Jane Hamilton

Spring 2006

Roofwalker
Susan Power

Fall 2005

Good Heart
Deborah Keenan

Spring 2005

Where No Gods Came
Sheila O’Connor

Fall 2004

Time Between Trains
Anthony Bukoski

Spring 2004

Tracks
Louise Erdrich

Fall 2003