MFA in Creative Writing | Summer 2025 Reading Series
New England College’s MFA in Creative Writing program hosts the 2025 Summer Reading Series, featuring readings by the program’s highly talented writers. The week culminates with a reading by Cate Marvin, the 2025 Elizabeth Yates McGreal Writer-in-Residence.
Dates: Friday, July 11鈥揊riday, July 18, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m. for all sessions
Locations in Henniker, NH:
John Lyons Center, 55 Depot Hill Road
Science Building Theatre, 24 Circle Street
Rosamond Page Putnam Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Weare Road
Admission: FREE and open to the public
Friday, July 11
Science Building Theatre
Chen Chen and Moses Ose Utomi
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. His work appears in Poetry, The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The New York Times, and other publications.
Moses Ose Utomi is a Nigerian-American fantasy writer who holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of The Forever Desert trilogy and the Sisters of the Mud young adult duology. He is currently based out of San Diego.
Saturday, July 12
John Lyons Center
Paige Ackerson-Kiely and Tara Ison
Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of three books of poetry鈥�In No One’s Land;听My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer;听and Dolefully, A Rampart Stands鈥攁nd other works of poetry and prose. Her poems have appeared in jubilat, Ninth Letter, Bellingham Review, Verse, and Copper Nickel.
Tara Ison is the author of the novels A Child out of Alcatraz, The List, Rockaway, and At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf;听the story collection Ball; and the essay collection Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies.
Sunday, July 13
John Lyons Center
David Ryan and Allison Titus
David Ryan is the author of Animals in Motion: Stories. His work has appeared in the 0. Henry Prize anthology, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, New England Review, Chicago Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and elsewhere.
Allison Titus has written a novel, several chapbooks, and three books of poems, including her newest collection, High Lonesome. Her work has appeared in A Public Space, Tin House, The Believer Magazine, and Ninth Letter, among other places.
Monday, July 14
John Lyons Center
Jennifer Militello and Andrew Morgan
Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen, The Pact, and the memoir Knock Wood. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, and other places.
Andrew Morgan is a professor, poet, editor, and volunteer whose work can be found in magazines such as Conduit, Verse, Slope, Stride, Fairy Tale Review, New World Writing, Post Road, and Pleiades. His first book, Month of Big Hands, was published by Natural History Press.
Friday, July 18
Putnam Center for the Performing Arts
Cate Marvin, the 2025 Elizabeth Yates McGreal Writer-in-Residence
Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, for which she received a Whiting Award, was published by Sarabande in 2007. Her third book of poems, Oracle, published by W.W. Norton & Co., was named by The New York Times as
one of “The Best Poetry Books of 2015.” Marvin teaches poetry writing in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Scarborough, Maine. Event Horizon, her fourth collection, appeared from Copper Canyon Press in 2022.
