Medaille College News

The Write Thing Reading Series continues as Sean Thomas Dougherty appears on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Huber Hall Library at Medaille’s Main Campus.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books, including Broken Hallelujahs (BOA, 2007), Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Mammoth, 2004), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Except by Falling, winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize from Mesa State College. His awards include two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry.

Raised in an interracial family with an African-American stepfather and a mother whose grandparents were Jewish immigrants, issues of identity and the complexities of history are central in his work. Dougherty has an MFA in poetry from Syracuse University, and has been the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Penn State-Erie.

All readings for the Write Thing Reading Series are held in The Library at Huber Hall at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. All events are free and open to the public; refreshments are occasionally served. For more information, contact Ted Pelton, Ph.D., associate professor of English and director of creative writing, tpelton@medaille.edu.

A high resolution image of Dougherty is available.

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