Writer's Voice

Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from alumni and friends, the Department of English, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley. All readings are free and open to the public.

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Nicole Stellon O'Donnell, Poetry

Thursday, 14 April | 7:30 p.m. | ARTS 150 Recital Hall

Nicole Stellon O'Donnell

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s first collection, Steam Laundry, won the 2013 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry.  Her second book, You Are No Longer in Trouble, a memoir-in-flash about being a teacher, a student, and a principal’s daughter was published in March 2019 as part of White Pine Press’s Marie Alexander Series.  Her third book, Everything Never Comes Your Way, has just been published by Boreal Books.

Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Redivider, Zyzzyva, and other literary journals.  Her essays and commentaries have appeared in the Anchorage Daily News and on the Alaska Public Radio Network.  She received both an Individual Artist Award and an Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation and an Alaska Literary Award from the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.  In 2014, she served as the winter writer-in-residence at Denali National Park.  She spent the spring of 2016 in South India as a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching.  She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Free & open to the public.

The Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley.

For more information contact Dr. Rob Davidson, Professor of English, rgdavidson@csuchico.edu

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