Bradley Paul
Monday, September 14, 2026 · 3:30 p.m., Wittliff · Campus Reading · Series: TKL & KAP
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · 6:00 p.m., KAP House · Series: TKL & KAP
Note: The Monday event will focus on Bradley Paul’s screenwriting. The Wednesday event will be a poetry reading.
Bradley Paul is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Plasma and The Animals All Are Gathering, from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His work has appeared in Smartish Pace, the American Poetry Review, Fence, and numerous other magazines. He lives in Los Angeles, where has written for television shows including Better Call Saul, Animal Kingdom, Lodge 49, and Tulsa King.
Roxane Gay
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 3:30 p.m., Location TBD · Campus Reading · Series: TKL
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Wednesday, February 17, 2027 · 3:30 p.m., Wittliff · Campus Reading Series: TKL & Torch Literary Arts
Born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry. In 2021, her verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, won The Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award and honors her son, Hip-Hop legend Malik, aka Phife Dawg, of A Tribe Called Quest. Her latest collection, The Limitless Heart, won the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award. Cheryl is currently working on her eighth collection of poetry.