Axton Reading Series

Department of English reading series featuring distinguished writers

Spring 2025 Readers and Presenters

Amy SLO

Amy Kurzweil

Co-sponsored with the Jewish Studies Program

Reading::
Feb. 27, 6:00 pm
The Susan and William Yarmuth Jewish Studies Reading Room, Ekstrom Library (3rd Floor)


Axton Master Class:
Feb. 28, 10 a.m. to noon
Bingham Humanities, Room 300


Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award-winning graphic memoirs. Artificial: A Love Story, which documents her father's quest to preserve the identity of his father through AI, was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus and won the Living Now Book Award. Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir, from 2016, tells the story of three generations of Jewish women in Amy's family. Amy was the recipient of a 2021 Berlin Prize with The American Academy in Berlin and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship, and she has done residencies at Macdowell and Yaddo. Her series with The Believer Magazine, "Technofeelia," has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz award. Her work has also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, Wired and many other places. She has taught writing and cartooning widely for over a decade.

 

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Reading:
April 3, 6 p.m.
Bingham Humanities, Room 205

Axton Master Class (Poetry):
April 4, 10 a.m. to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM), Room 300


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CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM

318 D Bingham Humanities

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky 40292

CREATIVE WRITING DIRECTOR

Ian Stansel

ian.stansel@louisville.edu

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