Distinguished Visiting Writers Series

The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series brings writers to campus to offer a reading and teach an advanced class that offers IC students in the Visiting Writers Workshop the unique opportunity to learn from some of country's foremost writers. All readings are open to the public.

Kai Coggin (she/her) is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, AR, author of five collections, and a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She has won numerous awards and fellowships, and her poems have been published in POETRY, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Coggin is a Certified Master Naturalist, a K-12 Teaching Artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country Wednesday Night Poetry. 

www.kaicoggin.com

Lars Horn is a writer and translator working in literary and experimental non-fiction. Horn’s first book, VOICE OF THE FISH, won the 2020 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, the 2023 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was named an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Book Award as well as an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection. The recipient of the Tin House Without Borders Residency and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Writers Workshops, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Horn’s writing has appeared in Granta , the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review , Poets & Writers, The Rumpus , Literary Hub , and elsewhere. Initially specialising in Phenomenology and Visual Arts scholarship, he holds MAs from the University of Edinburgh, the École normale supérieure, Paris, and Concordia University, Montreal as well as an MFA from Randolph College. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.

https://www.larshorn.com/