Sandra Lim & Cecily Parks
Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College
Ferguson Theater, 600 South Michigan
SANDRA LIM’s first book, Loveliest Grotesque, was published in 2006 by Kore Press. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Fellowship, and a 2006 Pushcart Prize nomination. Lim earned her BA at Stanford University, a PhD at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught at UC Berkeley, the University of Iowa, and Saint Mary’s College of California, and is the 2009-2010 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College.
CECILY PARKS’s first book of poems, Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series, 2008), was a finalist for the Norma Farber Prize and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Emerging Writers Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Octopus, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York and teaches in the undergraduate creative writing department at Columbia University.
