BMI Library Sessions: Marianne Chan & Clancy McGilligan
Writers and UNLV alumni Marianne Chan & Clancy McGilligan join us in the BMI Library for a Q&A sesh ahead of their Alumni Reading Series event.
Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati.
Clancy McGilligan is the author of the novella History of an Executioner, which won a Miami University Novella Prize and was a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award. His writing has appeared in Cimarron Review, Columbia Journal, Sycamore Review, Kenyon Review, the Ploughshares blog, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and has worked as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad.
BMI Library Sessions are produced, filmed, and edited by Joshua Chévere Cohen on behalf of UNLV's Black Mountain Institute. For more information about BMI, visit https://blackmountaininstitute.org/