Leigh Anne Couch & Kevin Wilson                                 

5 p.m. Thursday, January 19

Carter Hall D, University Center

Leigh Anne Couch is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. Her poems have appeared in the Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Salmagundi, Gulf Coast Review, Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other journals.  Her chapbook, Green and Helpless was published by Finishing Line Press, and her first book, Houses Fly Away, was winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. She lives in Tennessee with the writer Kevin Wilson and their son, Griff.

Kevin Wilson is the author of a collection of stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and a novel, The Family Fang.  His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has appeared in four volumes of the New Stories from the South:  The Year's Best anthology.  He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his son, Griff, where he teaches at the University of the South.    

Kiki Petrosino                                  

5 p.m. Thursday, March 1

Carter Hall D, University Center

Kiki Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border and co-editor of Transom, an independent on-line poetry journal.  She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  Her poems have appeared in FENCE, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.  A limited-edition chapbook, The Dark is Here, was published in 2011 by Forklift, Ink.  Petrosino is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville.  

Maurice Manning