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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading by two of its star graduates: Short fiction writer Dana Diehl (MFA '15) and novelist Kalani Pickhart (BA '09; MFA '19). The event takes place on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, at 5 p.m. in Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL), room 196 on ASU's Tempe campus. All are welcome.
About the stellar alumni
Dana Diehl is the author of the Hudson Prize winning collection, "The Earth Room" (Black Lawrence Press, 2026); "Our Dreams Might Align" (Splice UK, 2018); and the collaborative collection, "The Classroom" (Gold Wake Press, 2019). Her chapbook, "TV Girls," won the 2017-2018 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest judged by Chen Chen. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in North American Review, Necessary Fiction, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She is an educator in Tucson.
Kalani Pickhart is the author of "I Will Die in a Foreign Land," winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and longlisted for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives and writes in Phoenix, Arizona.
More information: https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/stellar-alumni-reading-series-kalani-pickhart-and-dana-diehl
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1102 S. McAllister Avenue, Tempe, AZ, United States, Arizona 85281
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