Faculty Presentation: Abeer Hoque, Rowan Ricardo-Phillips, Jim Stroud
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading with writers Abeer Hoque and Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and artist James Stroud .
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About Our Speakers
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes fanny packs, filing systems, and fresh starts. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers), and a memoir (Olive Witch). She has won fellowships from the NEA, Queens Council on the Arts, NYFA, and the Fulbright Foundation, and holds BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. See more at olivewitch.com.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author, most recently, of Silver. A recipient of a 2025 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he divides his time between New York and Barcelona.
James Stroud is a painter and master printer who is the Founder/Director of Center Street Studio, a professional printmaking workshop that prints and publishes contemporary prints with emerging and established artists. His own work is represented in several public collections including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard College. He was the recent recipient of a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Artist Residency in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
