Faculty Presentation: Indira Ganesan, Vievee Frances and Jennifer Mack Watkins
Monday, July 20, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writers Indira Ganesan and Vievee Francis, and artist Jennifer Mack-Watkins .
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About Our Speakers
Indira Ganesan is the author of three novels: The Journey, Inheritance, and As Sweet as Honey. She was born in Srirangam, India, and grew up in St. Louis, MO, and Rockland County, NY. She held fellowships from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, The MacDowell Colony, The Paden Institute for Writers of Color, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She reviews non-fiction books for Phi Beta Kappa’s online magazine, The Key Reporter, and teaches fiction at Emerson College. She hosts Namaste, a weekly global music program on Cape Cod community radio, WOMR/WFMR.
Vievee Francis is the author of four books of poetry: The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023); Forest Primeval, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including, Best American Poetry, spin.com, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Francis wrote the libretto for the transdisciplinary opera The Ritual of Breath. She is the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor in Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Jennifer Mack-Watkins is a contemporary visual artist and educator specializing in silkscreen and Japanese woodblock (mokuhanga) printmaking. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, and Essence, and is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of the Elizabeth Catlett Printmaking Award and has participated in international and national residencies, including the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Japan and Penland School of Crafts. Mack-Watkins holds a BA from Morris Brown College, a MAT from Tufts University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute, and brings a rigorous, culturally grounded, and student-centered approach to her teaching.
