October 6, 2009 | 7 p.m.
Boxwood Room, Conference Center

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of more than 20 books, including "A Conservationist Manifesto," "A Private History of Awe," "Writing from the Center," and "Hunting for Hope." He has received the Lannan Literary Award, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Book Award, the Kenyon Review Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award and other honors. He has received support from the Lilly Endowment, the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Since 1971, he has taught at Indiana University, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English.

This event is co-sponsored by the Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum.

October 15, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Pannell Gallery

Taije Silverman is the author of the poetry collection "Houses Are Fields." Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. The recipient of the 2005-2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she lives and teaches in Philadelphia.

John Casteen is the author of the poetry collection "Free Union." His poems have appeared recently in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines. His nonfiction has appeared in Slate.com, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. He lives in Earlysville, Va., and teaches at Sweet Briar College.

November 5, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Pannell Gallery

Hannah Tinti is the author of the story collection "Animal Crackers," which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and the novel "The Good Thief," a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She was a recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, and winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. She grew up in Salem, Mass., and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine. She recently received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story.

March 25, 2010 | 8 p.m.
Boxwood Room, Conference Center

D. A. Powell is the author of the poetry collections "Tea," "Lunch," "Cocktails," and "Chronic." Powell's honors have included fellowships from the Millay Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His recent poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, New England Review and A Public Space. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, he now teaches at the University of San Francisco.

April 13, 2010 | 8 p.m.
Boxwood Room, Conference Center

Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel, several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations, a Web site, and five books: "Other Electricities" (2005), "Vacationland" (2005), "Neck Deep and Other Predicaments" (2007), "The Available World" (2010) and "Vanishing Point" (2010). He lives and teaches in Tucson, Ariz., where he edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press.