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Authors, Lewis Robinson and Aaron McCollough will read from their newest books.

Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories and Water Dogs. His newest book, The Islanders was published by Islandport Press in 2023. He is a Writers' Workshop alum and winner of a Whiting Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review, and on the National Public Radio program Selected Shorts. He teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington and lives in Portland, Maine with his family.

"The author constructs a rich world of substantial characters caught in the muddled aspirations of young adulthood. A thrilling story of teenage survival and camaraderie."—Kirkus Reviews

Aaron McCollough is co-publisher of SplitLevel Texts, and is the author of Rank (U. of Iowa Press, 2015). He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His latest book is Salms (Kuhl House Poets, U. of Iowa Press, 2024)

“Profoundly intelligent and erudite, steeped in the metaphysicals, Aaron McCollough’s poems alternately tantalize with their hermeticism and dazzle with their sudden outpourings of radiant clarity. The mirrors so important to this collection are like the surfaces of lakes: protean, dreamy, distorting, swallowing up and transforming everything in their purview, as McCollough’s voracious intellect swallows up language and delivers it back to us refracted, estranged—as the past itself is transfigured by our memory of it. I found myself reveling in this writing, transfixed among the ‘dusty stars.’” —Donna Stonecipher, author, The Ruins of Nostalgia

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Readings at Prairie Lights are sponsored by the Writing University.}