Writers in Camden: Paul Lisicky & Elizabeth McCracken

Acclaimed authors Elizabeth McCracken and Paul Lisicky, MFA Professor, will read from their work.

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020), as well as The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award), Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Rose Dorothea Award from the Provincetown Library. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Antioch University Los Angeles, Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere. He is currently a Professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is Editor of StoryQuarterly. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. A new memoir, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, ​is forthcoming from HarperOne on February 25, 2025. 

Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Prize, The New York Times Magazine, and many other places. She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.

Free admission. Registration encouraged. Refreshments provided. Books available for purchase.

Writers in Camden

Writers in Camden is a long-running reading series on the Rutgers-Camden campus, inviting acclaimed novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers to share their work with students and the public.