As part of the college鈥檚 Visiting Writers Series, Middlesex Community College will host award-winning poet and writer Krysten Hill at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 19 in the Bedford Campus Caf茅 East.
鈥淵our writing will change because you will change. Be open to change and new artistic practices and habits,鈥� Hill said. 鈥淎lso, seek communities that do not minimize you or look past you. Find communities that want to witness YOU and encourage your growth, but do the same for other folks. Show folks that you are really paying attention to what they are doing especially when they are being vulnerable with what they share. Don鈥檛 just wait your turn. Encouraging other folks informs your artistic practice and your development as a human being. Work on being a better citizen as artistic practice.鈥�
Currently the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-residence at Brandeis University, Hill is the author of 鈥淗ow Her Spirit Got Out鈥� (Aforementioned Productions, 2016), which received the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.
She has had work featured on stage at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Boston Book Festival, Blacksmith House, Cantab Lounge, Haley House, U35 Reading Series and other venues.
Hill鈥檚 work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets鈥� Poem-a-Day Series, Poetry Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Winter Tangerine Review, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere.
Recipient of the 2020 Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellowshop, she has received the 2023 Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2024 SWWIM Residency, and The Kenyon Review鈥檚 2024 Peter Taylor Fellowship.
麻豆果冻 Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement. For more information, email Student Engagement or call 978-656-3363.