Celebrate our new major in Creative and Professional Writing with readings from UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ English alumnus and UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ professor Lamees Al Ethari.
Antonio Michael Downing, musician, speaker and author of the novella Molasses and the acclaimed memoir Saga Boy was named a Top Emerging Artist in Nonfiction by the RBC Taylor Prize. His novel Black Cherokee comes out with Simon and Schuster in 2024, along with a children's book, Stars in my Crown.
Lamees Al Ethari teaches creative writing at UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ English and her poetry collection, From the Wounded Banks of the Tigris came out in 2018, followed by a memoir, Waiting for the Rain (2019). She is a nonfiction editor with The New Quarterly and co-founder of The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop for Immigrant Women. She is working on a collection of short fiction titled The Fortuneteller and Other Stories.