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On Thursday, June 23, at 6:30 p.m., The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College will host One Night in June, an outdoor reading by four local authors on the College’s Bronxville campus. Victoria Buitron, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Jennifer Stewart Miller, and long-time Writing Institute instructor Elaine Sexton MFA ‘00 will take the stage of the stunning Remy Theatre in celebration of their latest books, which span the genres of poetry, memoir, and fiction. This event is part of the Wrexham Road Reading Series, and is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase courtesy of Bronxville’s Womrath Bookshop. Learn more and register for this event, and see more about the featured authors below.
“Summer is a magical time for outdoor readings,” said Writing Institute director Courtney Gillette. “I’m looking forward to bringing readers and writers together in a meaningful way for an evening of beautiful words in a beautiful setting.”
In addition to The Wrexham Road Reading Series, The Writing Institute has a full slate of online and in-person writing workshops and courses running throughout the summer. The expansive course roster covers genres from fiction and nonfiction to memoir and essay writing, and include specialized topics such as food writing, speculative fiction, insights into the publishing industry, and more. The Writing Institute’s offerings are noncredit and are suited to writers at all stages of their craft, from the novice to the professional.
About the Wrexham Road Reading Series Readers
Victoria Buitron is an award-winning writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Her prose and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, the 2021 Connecticut Literary Anthology, The Acentos Review, and other literary magazines. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and one of her flash fiction stories has been selected for 2022's Best Small Fictions. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, is the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s new novel, The Evening Hero, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2022. Her young adult novel, Finding My Voice, is considered to be the first contemporary-set YA with an Asian protagonist. She has written for The New York Times, Slate, The Guardian, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Salon. She teaches fiction at Columbia where she is Writer in Residence. The essay series she did for Slate on treating her son with autism with cannabis was featured in Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN series, "Weed."
Jennifer Stewart Miller grew up in Vermont and California and holds an MFA from Bennington College's Writing Seminars, a JD from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Field Archaeology from Birkbeck College, University of London. In past lives, she's practiced law, served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for a child in foster care, and dated clay tobacco pipes. She is the author of Thief (2021), winner of the 2020 Grayson Books poetry prize, A Fox Appears: A Biography of a Boy in Haiku (2015), and a chapbook, The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens Press 2020). Her poems have received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology and have been published widely, including in Cider Press Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Kestrel, Poet Lore, RHINO, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, and Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She also serves on the board of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.
Elaine Sexton’s fourth collection of poetry is Drive (Grid Books), published in April 2022. A long-time member of the faculty at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, she has also taught workshops & seminars in poetry, the chapbook, bookmaking, and text & image at various writing and art programs in the U.S. and abroad, including New York University, City College, Poets House, and Arts Workshop International. An editor and micro-publisher, she is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
About the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College
Since 1983, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College has offered writers a robust and supportive community, with workshops, classes, seminars, conferences, readings and more. Our virtual and on campus classes are open to all writers, including classes for beginners, advanced prose and poetry workshops, teen programs and publishing seminars. View current and upcoming classes and events at the Writing Institute here.