The Humanities Department invites the Brenau community to a reading and Q&A with Camonghne Felix, author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation (One World, 2023), which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019), was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, Freeman’s Journal and elsewhere. Her next full length work, Let the Poets Govern, is forthcoming from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Multi-Genre at The New School in New York City.
