Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series: Jacob Camacho and Nathan Long
Galloway, N.J. – The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series continues on Wednesday, March 18 featuring 鶹ýվ Literature faculty members Jacob Camacho and Nathan Long, alongside recent 鶹ýվ graduates.
The reading will take place at 11:20 a.m. in the Multicultural Center.
Long teaches creative writing, with a focus on fiction, as well as literature courses and courses for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. He has published stories and essays in over 100 anthologies and journals including The Sun, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review and Story Quarterly. His story “Reception Theory” won the 2017 international OWT Story Prize and “Arctic” won the 2015 international Open Road fiction award.
Born and raised in Guåhan, Mariana Islands, Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator and activist. His short story, “Proclamation,” appears in University of Guam’s Storyboard 18, and another story “Half-Moon” appears in Philadelphia's MadHouse Magazine Volume 4. Camacho is currently working on the manuscript for his first book, “TalkBoy.”
Community members and 鶹ýվ students, alumni, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the free event.
The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series is named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing at 鶹ýվ. It’s sponsored by of 鶹ýվ, the William T. Daly School of General Studies, the Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities and Board of Trustees member Madeleine Deininger, '80.
For more information, email murphywriting@stockton.edu.
