Jessie van Eerden is the author of two essay collections, Yoke & Feather and The Long Weeping, and three novels: Glorybound, 
My Radio Radio, and Call It Horses which won the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Oxford American, AGNI, Image, New England Review, and other magazines and anthologies.

She has been awarded the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, the Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize, the Gulf Coast  Prize in Nonfiction, the Milton Fellowship, and a Mid Atlantic Arts  Foundation Fellowship. Jessie holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and teaches at Hollins University.

Sponsored by the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lectureship and the Professor Bill Bywater Endowment For more information, contact Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu