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  • Carr Visiting Author Series: Mary Helen Specht

    Time
    4:30 pm    9/24/2026
    Location
    TBD

    Join us for a reading by author Mary Helen Specth! Mary Helen Specht is the author of the forthcoming novel Mudlark (July 2026) and the novel Migratory Animals, a New York Times Editors' Choice and winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Fiction Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize.

  • Carr Visiting Author Series: Alumni Reading featuring Weston Morrow and Chris Vanjonack

    Time
    4:30 pm    11/5/2026
    Location
    TBD

    Join us for a reading by Illinois Alumni, Chris Vanjonack and Weston Morrow!

  • Kaplan Family Writer-in-Residence Series Presents: Carmen Maria Machado

    Time
    4:30 pm    2/11/2027
    Location
    TBD

    Join us for a reading by author Carmen Maria Machado! Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and more.

  • Carr Visiting Author Series: Brandon Hobson

    Time
    4:30 pm    3/25/2027
    Location
    TBD

    Join us for a reading by author Brandon Hobson! Dr. Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at New Mexico State University and the institute of american indian arts.