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Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her first novel, So Many Olympic Exertions, was published by Kaya Press in 2017. It was a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Finalist. Her second book, Clam Down (One World), based on her brief stint as the Paris Review Daily's "mollusk correspondent," was published in June 2025. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Awardee. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, The Believer, McSweeney's, BOMB, The New Republic, NPR, Village Voice, Conjunctions, and more.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Wendy S. Walters is a Creative Capital Awardee in literary nonfiction and the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, Huffington Post, and others. She is also the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem, 2014) and Longer I Wait, More You Love Me. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Full Bleed, and Harper's among many others. Her current projects address intersections between writing and design, climate change and its reverberations, class and racial disquietude in the industrial Midwest, and organic forms in the essay. Walters is Associate Professor of Nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

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Voice students perform one song they have studied this semester. The songs include classics from 70's, 80's & 90's pop, jazz standards, musical theater as well as German & Italian art songs and arias. 

Join us in celebrating the Volume 22 digital launch alongside the Lumina team, contributors, and the SLC Writing MFA community. We'll enjoy some readings from this volume's talented contributors (beginning at 7pm), hear from some of the Lumina staff about this year's content, and mingle over appetizers, music, and good company.

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This event is colloquium credit eligible.