UWM Department of English

10/13/2025

Join Hilary Plum as she reads from her new novel, State Champ

Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:30 pm in person in Curtin Hall 175 (3242 N. Downer Ave.)

Livestream link: https://tinyurl.com/486r552k

Hilary Plum (she/her) is the author of six books, including the novel State Champ, out from Bloomsbury in May 2025. Her previous works include the essay collection Hole Studies and the long poem Important Groups. With Zach Savich, she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. With Zach Peckham, she co-hosts the podcast Index for Continuance. She teaches at Cleveland State University and serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center.

02/25/2025

The UWM Department of English Presents:

The 2024 Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Awards Ceremony

February 28, 2025, 10:30 A.M., Curtin Hall 175

12/05/2024

11/13/2024

Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30 p.m.: Dr. Derek G. Handley, UWM faculty member and author of Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement in conversation with Joy Powers at Boswell Book Company.

11/04/2024

The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding a free event from 7:00pm–8:00pm on Friday, November 15 at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust Street) with Ty Newcomb, Saundra Norton, Kurt Olsson, and Professor Kate Beutner.