The English Department will welcome Megan Pinto \u201914 this Thursday, Oct. 24, from 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall.<\/p>\n
Megan Pinto is the author of the poetry collection Saints of Little Faith,\u00a0<\/em>which engages with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness. Her poems confront these realities while simultaneously envisioning life as holy and the divine as capable of gentleness.\u00a0Saints of Little Faith\u00a0<\/em>was published by Four Way Books in 2024, and Pinto\u2019s individual poems have appeared in\u00a0Guernica, Ploughshares,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere.<\/p>\n She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers\u2019 Conference, Storyknife, and the Peace Studio. Recently, she received the 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review and was selected for the Poets & Writers 2024 Get the Word Out poetry cohort.<\/p>\n An alumna of Ohio Wesleyan University, she lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson. Join Pinto for a reading followed by a Q&A and booking signing. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n