Melissa Range to join Vanderbilt Reading Series – April 16
VU Literary Prize Winner Melissa Range will join the Vanderbilt Reading Series, after publishing her new collection of poems, Printer’s Fist, with Vanderbilt University Press in April 2026. The Reading Series and The Press will co-host the event.
Thursday, April 16
Alumni Hall 202 – 23rd Ave N, Nashville, TN
6:00 Literary Salon & Reception
7:00 Reading
8:00 Book Signing
Melissa Range is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for Printer’s Fist, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the author of Scriptorium, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.