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Kiki Petrosino and Jane Alison portraits on gingko leaf backgrounds with event time, date, and venue (5:00 p.m., January 21, 2026, Bryan Hall 229)

Please join us for the second Faculty Reading of the year, featuring professors Jane Alison and Kiki Petrosino!

Jane Alison is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Villa E, Nine Island, The Love Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, Change Me, Natives and Exotics, the memoir The Sisters Antipodes, and the craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

Kiki Petrosino is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books, all from Sarabande. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her memoir, Bright, was released from Sarabande in 2022.