SLU Writers Series presents Susan McCarty & Matthew Kirkpatrick

ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY WRITERS SERIES
PRESENTS: SUSAN MCCARTHY & MATTHEW KIRKPATRICK

For over 50 years the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors including Pulitzer Prize winners.

Susan McCarty is an associate professor in the English, Film, and Creative Writing department at Oakland University, in the metro Detroit area. She is the author of Anatomies (2015, Aforementioned Productions) and has recently published essays in Creative Nonfiction, Ecotone, LitHub, Seneca Review, Zone 3, and other journals. She has a book forthcoming with Barrelhouse Books about online shopping during the pandemic, and is currently at work on an auto-horror novel about menopause.

She lives in Ypsilanti with the writer Matt Kirkpatrick, their kid, and a dog named Jellybeans. Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of the short story collection Light without Heat (FC2, March 2012), the novella The Exiles (Ricochet Editions, 2013), the novel The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art (Acre Books, 2019) and a novel forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2025.

His writing has appeared in many literary journals, including X-R-A-Y, The Rupture, The Rumpus, Tammy, Juked, The Believer Logger, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Web Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, DIAGRAM, the Notre Dame Review, Unsaid, Five Chapters, and Denver Quarterly.

His audio collage and hypertext, The Silent Numbers, is anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and was part of the Shapeshifting Texts exhibit at the University of Bremen.

His novel about imaginary art inspired an exhibit of real art, “Selections from the Seagrave Museum,” at the University of Cincinnati school of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning.

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah, and is a professor of creative writing at Eastern Michigan University.