Simeon Marsalis, New York writer who earned his MFA in 2019 from Rutgers University-Newark. His first novel, As Lie Is to Grin, was published by Catapult in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's first novel prize. His short story, "The Exterminator," appears in the Fall 2021 Founders' Issue of Lampblack, a magazine and literary organization that he helped to co-found. Marsalis is working on his second novel, End Times, and is currently a part-time lecturer in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark.

Public reading, conversation with Professor Lazar, and a Q&A portion, 11/17 at 7:00pm, Stone Auditorium.

For more information, call the English Department at 504-865-5160.