Readings from Christian Campbell and Nina Revoyr
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Christian Campbell, a Bahamian and Trinidadian poet whose book Running the Dusk won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, gave a reading with Nina Revoyr, the author of four novels including the Lambda Award winner Southland and the 2011 novel Wingshooters. The readings took place as part of the Distinguished Writers Series of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. Elena Creef, a professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley and Newhouse Center fellow, led a discussion following the readings about multicultural writing, the role of personal experience, and the writing process.
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