Poet Chase Twichell kicks off UT’s Writers at the University series fall
schedule at the Vaughn Center Reeves Theater on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. The
free reading is presented by the Department of English and Writing in
cooperation with the Florida Literary Arts Coalition.
Twichell received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (CT) in 1973, and
earned an MFA at the University of Iowa in 1976. Her books of poetry include
The Snow Watcher (1998), The Ghost of Eden (1995),
Perdido (1991), The Odds (1986), and Northern Spy
(1981).
Twichell has won awards from the Artists Foundation (Boston), the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the
Arts. From 1976-84, she worked at Pennyroyal Press, and from 1986-88, she
co-edited the Alabama Poetry Series published by University of Alabama
Press.
She also co-edited The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets
Who Teach with Robin Behn (HarperCollins, 1992). She has taught at
Princeton University, Goddard College, Warren Wilson College, the University of
Alabama and Hampshire College. In 1999, she founded Ausable Press. She lives in
Keene, NY, with her husband, novelist Russell Banks.
For more information, contact the Department of English and Writing at (813)
253-6216.