By Michelle Hines , University Relations
Jennifer Grotz.
UNCG will host a reading by poet Jennifer Grotz.
Grotz will read at 8 p.m. Sept. 28 in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. The reading is free, open to the public and sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and the Greensboro Review. A reception will follow the reading.
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Poetry and the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, Grotz is the author of “Cusp.” Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and “Best American Poetry 2000.” She is the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, co-organizer of the Krakow Poetry Seminar and a professor of the UNCG MFA Writing Program. She holds an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Huston.
Prior to the reading, Grotz will give a short, 5:30 p.m. interview and reading on UNCG student radio, WUAG, 101.3 FM
