K.A Hays

Stadler Emerging Writer, 2007–08

Poetry Reading
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
7 p.m., Bucknell Hall

Hays earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Florida Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Missouri Review, Antioch Review and other magazines. Editors at New Orleans Review and Black Warrior Review nominated her poems for the 2006 and 2007 Best New Poets anthologies, and she was a semifinalist for the 2007 Nation/“Discovery” Prize. Hays is also a fiction writer and verse translator whose work in those genres has appeared in Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and other magazines, and whose short stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Hays will share the reading with Erinn Batykefer.