Angela Flournoy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Dean's Fellowship. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and at Trinity Washington University and has worked for the Washington, D.C. Public Library. 

Her debut novel, The Turner House, brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice, and unlikely inheritances. The novel scrutinizes the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

Clayton Eshleman

3:30 | Clocktower Commons*

Clayton Eshleman is one of America's foremost translators and poets, noted in particular for his translations of César Vallejo and for his studies of cave paintings. Eshleman founded and edited among the most innovative poetry journals of the latter part of the 20th century: Caterpillar (20 issues, 1967-1973) and Sulfur (46 issues, 1981-2000). Mr. Eshleman's recognitions and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a National Book Award for Translation, two grants from the NEA, two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Study Center residency in Bellagio, Italy.