Visiting Writers Series: Gale Marie Thompson

Join Gale Marie Thompson as she teaches a master class on the ethics of the lyric “I” from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Faculty Parlors of Main Building and gives a public reading from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall. Thompson will read from her new book “Mountain Amnesia,” a winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, and Mississippi Review, among others. A winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2022 Emily Dickinson Award, Thompson has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is founding editor of Jellyfish Poetry and an editor for YesYes Books. She lives in the mountains of North Georgia, where she directs the creative writing program at Young Harris College.