Poet and anthropologist Nomi Stone features as H. S. Vanderbilt speaker – November 14
Friday, November 14th
12:30 – 2:30 PM
Kissam C216
Lunch will be provided, and a selection of Nomi Stone’s book will be available for attendees.
Nomi Stone is an award-winning poet and anthropologist. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019), which was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and was based on two years of fieldwork conducted across the Middle East and America. Her scholarly monograph, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022), was a finalist for the Atelier Prize.
Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright, Nomi Stone has published poems in POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and widely elsewhere. Her anthropological articles have been recently published in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia, an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson, an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, teaching across the anthropology and creative writing departments. A selection from her third volume of poetry, a hybrid collection about queer kinship, You Could Build a World This Way, was recently a finalist for the Bull City Press’s chapbook prize, the Chad Walsh Prize, and the Tomasz Salamun Prize. She is currently Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas.
This event is made possible through the Robert & Lillian Drake Lecture Series endowment.