UC Clermont welcomes acclaimed poet Sara Henning Sept. 30
Author will take part in book reading, signing
The University of Cincinnati Clermont College will welcome Sara Henning, the celebrated author of “Burn,” as the featured poet for their fall 2024 Visiting Poetry Series.
Author Sara Henning
The event will take place Monday, Sept. 30, and will include a Q&A session with the author at 9:30 a.m. in the West Woods building room 163, followed at 11 a.m. by a reading, book signing and reception in the college’s Frederick A. Marcotte Library, located in the Snyder building.
Henning is an award-winning poet whose latest collection, “Burn” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), was selected for the prestigious Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Her previous works include “Terra Incognita” (Ohio University Press, 2022), which won the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and “View from True North” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), which garnered the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award.
Henning’s accolades also include the 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and the 2019 Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry has been featured in esteemed journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, Meridian and the Cincinnati Review. In addition to her writing, Henning is an assistant professor of creative writing at Marshall University, where she coordinates the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series.
The event is free and open to the public. UC Clermont is located at 4200 Clermont College Drive, Batavia, Ohio.
About UC Clermont
UC Clermont College is in Clermont County on 91 beautifully wooded acres in Batavia Township. The college is an accredited, open-access institution offering more than 60 programs and degrees. UC Clermont is part of the nationally recognized University of Cincinnati. For more information, call 513-556-5400 or visit www.ucclermont.edu.
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