Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Old Chapel Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
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Open to the Public

Join us for a reading by two members of the Middlebury College community in celebration of their debut books.

Kellam Ayres’s debut poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing (Gunpowder Press, 2024), was chosen by Gary Soto as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Guernica, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Her work has received support with grants and residencies from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Studio Center. Kellam works for the Middlebury College Library and serves as the liaison to the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. She’s a graduate of both the School of English and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and lives with her husband, daughter, and son in rural Vermont.

Carolyn Kuebler’s debut novel, Liquid, Fragile, Perishable, was published by Melville House in 2024. Carolyn was a co-founder of the literary magazine Rain Taxi, and for the past ten years she has been the editor of the New England Review. Her stories and essays have been published in The Common and Colorado Review, among others. “Wildflower Season,” published in The Massachusetts Review, won the 2022 John Burroughs Award for Nature Essay. She has published dozens of book reviews, small-press profiles, and author interviews in Publishers Weekly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi, City Pages, and others. Carolyn lives in Middlebury with her husband, Christopher, and daughter, Vivian Ross.

Sponsored by:
Department of English

Contact Organizer

Johnsen, Molly
mjohnsen@middlebury.edu
802-443-5276