President Keen’s Author Salon Series
Join the 10th President of Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³», Suzanne Keen, for a series of intimate literary gatherings with the Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»community across the country. President Keen will host award-winning writers such as Myriam J.A. Chancy, Rebecca Makkai, Susan Choi, and Andrew Sean Greer for thought-provoking conversations with Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»alums, families, and friends. All events are free and open to the greater Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»community.

“It’s in our nature to relate to one another’s stories. When we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people’s perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.â€
—Suzanne Keen, President
Seattle, WA | Tuesday, October 11 | 6:00pm
Featuring Myriam J.A. Chancy
Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of Humanities at Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»
Women’s University Club of Seattle
Chicago, IL | Thursday, October 20 | 6:30pm
Featuring Rebecca Makkai
2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and 2018 National Book Award Finalist
Towne & Oak, Winnetka
San Francisco, CA | Wednesday, November 2 | 6:30pm
Featuring Andrew Sean Greer
2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction and Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³» (2016)
The Century Club of California
Los Angeles, CA | Tuesday, December 6 | 6:30pm
Featuring Lynne Thompson ’72, Los Angeles Poet Laureate (2021-2022) and
Luis J. Rodriguez, Los Angeles Poet Laureate (2014-2016)
Red Hen Press, Pasadena
San Diego, CA | Wednesday, January 25 | 6:30pm
Featuring Jean Chen Ho
2023 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»
At the home of Kalpana ’94 and James Rhodes, La Jolla
Washington, DC | March 15 | 6:30pm
Featuring Dwandalyn Reece ’85
Curator of Music & Performing Arts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History & Culture
Politics and Prose, Den Coffeehouse
New York, NY | Saturday, March 18 | 2:00pm
Featuring Susan Choi
2019 National Book Award Winner for Fiction
The Lotos Club, New York
Boston, MA | Thursday, March 23 | 6:00pm
Featuring Tracy K. Smith
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry and U.S. Poet Laureate (2017-2019)
The Library, Hampshire House
