Kratz Center for Creative Writing

The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher alum and editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review Paul Reyes for a seminar on literary publishing.

Reyes is the author of Exiles in Eden, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and Slate. He’s also received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher alumnus and poet Lindsay Stuart Hill for a reading of her latest collection, World of Dew, winner of the Brittingham Prize.

Lindsay Stuart Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and communications consultant. By day, she helps academic institutions and other mission-driven organizations tell their stories. By night, she writes and publishes her own poetry in nationally recognized journals. Her full-length poetry manuscript has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, and the Wisconsin Poetry Series; her short chapbook, One Life, was published by Finishing Line Press.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Kratz Center is proud to present its Fall 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests:

Nate Marshall is the author of FINNA and Wild Hundreds. He is an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. He is also the author of the audio drama “Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Re*****on Ellis, Esq.” and co-author (with Eve L. Ewing) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Marshall is a Creative Writing assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bobby Elliott is the author of The Same Man, a collection of poems selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. He has taught at James Madison University and the University of Virginia, where he won the Kahn Prize for his work with undergraduate writers. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Diode, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, and elsewhere.

The events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact [email protected].

The Kratz Center is proud to host award-winning author Jennifer De Leon for a reading and book signing of her latest novel, Borderless.

Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, as well as White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing. She is a speaker, presenter, and educator who loves to connect with readers of all ages.