Literary Schedule for 2012 Arts Festival
Thursday, 4/26, 12-2pm:
The Creative Writing Concentration is a special track of the English major. Seniors
Jacob Burg, Chantal Cabrera, Donald Chang, Taylor Costas, John Delfino, Tara Fowler,
Nick Hofmaier, Kristin House, Richard Hoyt, Trotter LaRoe, Catherine Marie LeClair,
Ana T. Lopez, Elizabeth Martin, Emily Olson, Tracy Rizk, Amy Stephenson, Tessa
Trainor, Michael Wolf, and Jennifer Yoo are this year’s graduates.
Friday, 4/27, 12-2pm:
Amy Boesky, author of What We Have (Penguin, 2010), a memoir about her family’s
experience with hereditary cancer, is currently editing a collection of personal essays on
genetics and identity on a grant from the Howard Foundation.
Andrew Sofer’s poetry collection is Wave (Main Street Rag, 2010). He teaches in the
English department.
Paul Doherty teaches in the English department; his creative nonfiction has appeared in
Boston College Magazine and is forthcoming in Holy Cross Magazine.
Suzanne Matson teaches poetry and fiction workshops at BC and is the author of two
volumes of poetry and three novels.
James Najarian has published poems in literary journals including Tar River Poetry and
West Branch.
Carlo Rotella’s next book, Playing in Time: Profiles, Essays, and Other True Stories,
will be published in the fall.
Saturday, 4/28, 12-2pm:
Bob Chibka, who has taught fiction-writing and 18th-century British literature in the BC
English Department since (ominously Orwellian) 1984, prides himself on
hypertrophically meticulous proofreadery.
Adrian Van Young teaches literature and writing in Boston and at BC; his first
collection of stories, The Man Who Noticed Everything: Stories is forthcoming from
Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books in 2013.
Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir, three story collections, and twodozen non-fiction books.
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield is the author of several novels, including Hide and Seek in
2011 and The Mystery of the Grail (spring 2012) by Kepler Press.
Deborah Schwartz teaches in the English department and will read from her in-progress
poetry manuscript, “I Wish My Mother was Dead, So I Could Praise Her.”
Christopher Boucher received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University
in 2002; he is the author of the novel, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive.