Join us for a reading with Texas State MFA faculty. Featuring Doug Dorst, Jennifer duBois, Steve Wilson, and Roger Jones.
Doug Dorst is the author of two novels, S. (with J.J. Abrams) and Alive in Necropolis, a story collection, The Surf Guru. He has also collaborated on a play, Monster in the Dark (with foolsFURY Theater), and is a staff writer on the TV show Z: The Beginning of Everything (airing February 2017). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Austin and has taught at Texas State since 2011.
Jennifer duBois’s debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stanford University Stegner Fellow, duBois is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award. She teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.
Recent poems by Steve Wilson are out or forthcoming in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands, Bluestem, Commonweal, Poem, Georgetown Review, North American Review, America, The Christian Science Monitor, Blue Unicorn, New Orleans Review, San Pedro River Review, The Christian Century, New American Writing, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Midwest Quarterly, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and New Letters; as well as in a number of anthologies, including O Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press), Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by Robert Frost (University of Iowa), Stories from Where We Live: The Gulf Coast (Milkweed Editions), Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa), What Have You Lost? (Greenwillow), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa), An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press), Classifieds: An Anthology of Prose Poems (Equinox), Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets (Mutabilis) and Going Down Grand: Poetry of the Grand Canyon (Lithic). His books include Allegory Dance, The Singapore Express, and The Lost Seventh.
Roger Jones earned a BA and MA at Sam Houston State University and a PhD from Oklahoma State University. He has taught at Texas State University since 1987 (when it was still Southwest Texas State University). He has published two full collections of poems and two chapbooks, with a third chapbook to be published in coming months. His poems have appeared for the last three decades in journals that include Cortland Review, Modern Haiku, Connotation Press, Evansville Review, Texas Observer, Poet Lore, Baltimore Review, Kansas Quarterly, and Arkansas Review. He’s been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and was poetry editor of the Texas Review from 2009-2012.