Kwoya Fagin Maples
FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama Department of English and the UNA College of Arts and Sciences will host a poetry reading by Kwoya Fagin Maples, Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m., in the Guillott University Center Loft.
Maples, originally from Charleston, South Carolina, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow and a Home-school Lambda Literary Fellow.
Her publications include a chapbook titled Something of Yours (2010), as well as work in several journals and anthologies, including the Blackbird Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, The African-American Review, PLUCK, Cave Canem Anthology XIII, The Birmingham Poetry Review and Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.
Her current manuscript, MEND, tells the story of women who were the experimental subjects of Dr. James Marion Sims of Montgomery, Alabama. Mend received a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.
Maples teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.
The poetry reading is free and open to the public.
For more information: the English Department at english@una.edu or 256-765-4238.
Media Release/UNA/Dr. Cynthia Burkhead, Department of English
