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The Kratz Center is proud to present the Fall 2025 Visiting Author:

Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing, which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. Jenn is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. As an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and faculty member for the Newport MFA Program at Salve Regina University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.

She will give a reading and book signing of her latest novel, Borderless.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Kratz Center is proud to present its Spring 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests:

Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller, and a firestarter. Her short story collection, Alien Virus Love Disaster, was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and was a finalist for the 2018 Phillip K. Dick Award. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Tin House, Millay Arts, the Vermon Studio Center, and the McKnight Foundation.

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.

Curated by Edgar Kunz.

The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher Alum and Kratz Spring Writer in Residence Sarah Pinsker for a reading and book signing for her new novel: Haunt Sweet Home.

This event is free and open to the public.