"Writers Speak" Continues With MFA Alumni

Novelist Simon Van Booy and poet Lucas Hunt, two alumni of Southampton College's MFA program, will read from their work in Duke Lecture Hall at Stony Brook Southampton on November 14.

The event is part of Southampton's MFA in Writing and Literature program and its “Writers Speak” series of literary discussions, which all take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at Stony Brook Southampton and are free and open to the public. For further information, call 631-632-5030.

Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. In 2002, he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Award. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The New York Times and The New York Post. He now lives in New York City where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Long Island University. He is also involved in the Bard College Access Program for at-risk young adults.

Lucas Hunt was born in rural Iowa and now makes his home on Long Island. A graduate of Southampton College, he has worked as a journalist and written several volumes of poetry and plays. He has been presented with a John Steinbeck Award for poetry. His most recent book of poems, “Lives,” was published by Vagabond Press in October 2006.

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