Carr Visiting Author Series: Callie Siskel
- Event Type
- Performance
- Sponsor
- Creative Writing and the Department of English
- Location
- TBD
- Date
- Feb 19, 2026 4:30 pm
- Contact
- john dudek
- jdudek4@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Creative Writing Upcoming Events
A reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series.
Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
Her poetry appears in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
She holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and a PhD in Creative and Literature from the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review Books.