The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series presents poet Tom C. Hunley

Poet Tom C. Hunley will read from his work as part of the Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series. A question and answer session and book signing will follow.

This reading is co-hosted by the English Department and the Indiana State University Creative Writing Society and is made possible with support from the Indiana State University Center for Community Engagement and a Student Organization Resource Fund grant from the Student Government Association.

This event is free and open to the public. Hunley holds degrees from University of Washington, Eastern Washington University and Florida State University. He is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Plunk (Wayne State College Press, 2004); six chapbooks, most recently The State That Springfield Is In, Split Lip Press, 2015); and two textbooks, most recently The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse (McFarland & Co., Inc., 2012). He is the co-editor, with Alexandria Peary, of Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). He has also written for a variety of literary publications such as TriQuarterly, New York Quarterly, Five Points, The Writer, North American Review, New Orleans Review, Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, Verse Daily, The Writer's Chronicle, Atlanta Review and Poetry Daily. His poems have been featured several times on Garrison Keillor's NPR program, The Writer's Almanac. In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, he is the book review editor for Poemeleon and the director/founder of Steel Toe Books.