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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Poetry, fiction and nonfiction writer Sarah Manguso will read at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 in the Valley Library Rotunda on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.

Manguso is the author of seven books, including the nonfiction works “300 Arguments,” “Ongoingness,” “The Guardians,” and “The Two Kinds of Decay”; the fiction work “Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape” and poetry “Siste Viator” and “The Captain Lands in Paradise.” 

She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Hodder Fellowship, and “The Two Kinds of Decay” was selected as an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Manguso’s poems have appeared in multiple editions of the Best American Poetry series, and her essays appear regularly in publications such as Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the Paris Review, The New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. 

Manguso holds a master of fine arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she previously served as the Mary Routt Chair of Creative Writing at Scripps College in addition to teaching at Columbia University, the New School, New York University, the Pratt Institute, Princeton University and the Otis College of Arts and Design. She currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

This reading is part of the 2017-2018 Visiting Writers Series, which brings nationally acclaimed writers to OSU. The series is sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at OSU, with support from the OSU Libraries and Press, the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, and Grass Roots Books and Music. 

The event is free and open to the public. The Valley Library is located at 201 S.W. Waldo Place, Corvallis.