SEAN HILL

Monday, February 10, 7pm
Plymouth Congregational Church
1900 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis

This event is free and open to the public!

Rain Taxi and Literary Witnesses present poet Sean Hill, director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University. He will be joined by fellow Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference writers: Erin Lynn Marsh, Preeti Kaur Rajpal, Naomi Cohn, and Julian Randall! Book Signing and reception to follow.

Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Oxford American, Poetry, Tin House, and the Harvard Review, and several anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing, and Villanelles. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Hill has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, he received an MFA from the University of Houston.

Hill is currently the director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University and makes his home in in Montana. Visit him online at: www.seanhillpoetry.com .