Spring 2021 Axton Readers
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Janine Joseph Axton Reading: February 25, 7:30 pm Location: Virtual Axton Master Class (poetry): February 26, 10 am Location: Virtual Born in the Philippines, Janine Joseph immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight and lived undocumented for fifteen years. She is the author of Driving Without a License, winner Kundiman Poetry Prize, 2018 da Vinci Eye Award, and named an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club, among other honors. An organizer for Undocupoets, Janine also serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Poets & Writers at OSU-Tulsa. Currently, she lives in Stillwater, OK, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oklahoma State University |
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Allen Gee Axton Reading: April 1, 7:30 pm Location: Virtual Axton Master Class (prose): April 2, 10 am Location: Virtual Allen Gee is the author of the essay collection, My Chinese America. His essay, Old School was included in the most recent Pushcart Prize anthology. Gee has recently completed a novel, The Laborers, and is at work on the biography of James Alan McPherson, titled At Little Monticello. Gee's work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Common, Lumina, Crab Orchard Review, Terrain, and elsewhere. He is the former Editor of Gulf Coast, served as Fiction Editor at Arts & Letters for over a decade, and is now the Editor for the imprints 2040 Books and DLJ Books. He taught for the MFA Program at Georgia College for fourteen years, and is now the D.L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at Columbus State University.
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