Mexican author Valeria Luiselli on fiction writing in America today.  Named "5 under 35" by the National Book Foundation and included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015, Valeria Luiselli is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, and The Story of My Teeth, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

Panel discussion on women in American theater with playwrights Lisa Kron (Tony Award winner for Fun Home), Kia Corthron (Windham-Campbell Literature Prize winner for Drama), Patricia Ione Lloyd (New Professional Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Award winner), and Monet Hurst-Mendoza (2017 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater and is a 2016-2018 Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists). Moderated by former Newsday theater critic and NY Drama Critics’ Circle member, Linda Winer.

A conversation with playwright Doug Wright moderated by Time Out NY theater critic Adam Feldman. Doug Wright earned the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for his play I am My Own Wife. Other stage works include Grey Gardens (Tony Nomination), The Little Mermaid, and War Paint.

A reading of works in progress by Queens College English faculty and a discussion on the creative process and the writer’s life.