FALL 2026 READING SERIES

SIEW HII (Poetry Reading)

Thursday, October 22, 6-7 PM, Caldwell Hall Lounge, Caldwell Hall (map)

SIEW HII (she/they) is the author of Entered Some Aliens (University of Wisconsin Press 2026). Her prose and poetry appear at AGNI, Electric Lit, Story, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Hii now lives in Orlando, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Florida. Her parents hail from Sibu, Malaysia and Kentucky, USA.

MELISSA FALIVENO & NC State Fiction Contest Award Ceremony (Fiction Reading)

Thursday, November 5, 7:30-9 PM, Caldwell Hall Lounge, Caldwell Hall (map)

MELISSA FALIVENO is the author of the novel Hemlock (Little, Brown, 2026) and the essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received notable selection in Best American Essays, has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic (Harper Perennial, 2022) and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split/Lip, 2026). The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, Melissa holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill. www.melissafaliveno.com