Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Ellyn Gaydos and Michael Lesy on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

Ellyn Gaydos is the author of Pig Years. She received an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University. Her work has received the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism, and appeared in The Texas Review, Columbia Journal, and Ninth Letter, where she received the 2017 award for creative nonfiction. She lives in New Lebanon, New York.

Michael Lesy has published fifteen books of American history, biography, and narrative nonfiction. His most recent book is Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories (2022). He served as Professor of Literary Journalism at Hampshire College from 1990 until 2018, and is now Professor Emeritus. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.