Lit, Live!
Sponsored by The Creative Writing Program, Nassau Community College’s Lit, Live! reading series brings to campus renowned writers from around the world. Among those who have read at NCC are Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Simic, Jamaica Kincaid, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tobias Wolff, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Nahid Rachlin, and Michael Thomas. These writers present their work in readings that are free and open to the public, conduct master classes and Q&A sessions for creative writing students, and meet with faculty groups.
Lit, Live! also sends writers from Nassau Community College out into the Long Island community to give lectures, readings and/or workshops at libraries, local public schools, art galleries, museums, or any other Long Island organization that would like to include literary activities in its offerings. The Faculty Profiles page contains biographies, samples of work, and contact information, or, if you would like more general information, contact Dr. Sabrina Davis, Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program, at CreativeWritingProgram@ncc.edu.
Lit, Live! - Spring 2025
Co-sponsored by the NCC Foundation
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 AT 11:00am
Angie Cruz
Location: Library 2nd floor or Live Stream
Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass
of Water (2022) was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature,
shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book
Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, and chosen for The New York
Times 100 Notable Books of 2022. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick
for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women's Prize, longlisted for the Andrew
Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the
ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and
Let It Rain Coffee and has published shorter works in The Paris Review, VOR, Callaloo,
Gulf Coast and other journals. She's the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award-winning
literary journal, Asterix).
She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York and Turin.
Our previous Lit, Live! Readers:
* writers who are also NCC faculty
2024
Vanessa CutiMariah Fredericks
Richard Newman*
Alex Segura
Pramila Venkateswaran*
2023
Joseph DoughertyKyle Lucia Wu
Richard Jeffrey Newman*
Mary Lannon*
Christina Rau*
Sara Hosey*
Pramila Venkateswaran*
2022
Christina Rau*Joel Mowdy
Safia Jama
Sara Hosey*
Gina Sipley*
John Woods*
2021
John Woods*
Mary Lannon*
Sara Hosey*
Eugene Lim
Nana Brew-Hammond
2020
Linda Opyr*
Sara Hosey*
Carmen Burgan
Mary Lannon*
2019
Kevin Nyugen
Tim Wood*
Mario Susko*
Elizabeth Wood*
Amy King*
Christina Rau*
Joe Pilaro*
Javier Zamora
Matwaala South Asian Diaspora
Poetry Festival
(featuring Usha Akella, Yogesh Patel, Kavita Jindal, ZIlka Joseph, Sophia Naz)
Bi-Centennial Birthday Celebration for Walt Whitman
(featuring Whitman impersonator Darrel Ford and Whitman scholar Iris Jumper)
Carmen Maria Machado
2018
Elizabeth Nunez
Aaron Jackson
Jared Harél*
David Cope
Ralph Nazareth*
Sokunthary Svay
Barbara Barnard*
Mary Lannon*
Pramila Venkateswaran*
John Woods*
Pat Falk*
2017
Barbara Novack
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Elmaz Abinader
Veils, Halos, and Shackles
(featuring visiting writers Charles Fishman, Marisa Frasca, Terri Muuss and Richard Newman*)
Meera Nair
Amy King*
Matthew Rotando*
Barbara Barnard*
Christina M. Rau*
Pramila Venkateswaran
Jared Harél*
Tom D’Angelo*
Shannon Matesky
Olivia Kate Cerrone
2016
Barbara Novack
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Writers of Veils, Halos, & Shackles
Nancy Agabian
Meera Nair
Matt Rotando*
Barbara Barnard*
Pramila Venkateswaran*
Christina M. Rau*
Usha Akelal
Saleem Peeradina
Sasha Parmasad
Varsha Shah
Elmaz Abinader
Robert Lopez
Laurie Foos
2015
Connie Roberts
Cathy Chung
Phillis Levin
Tim Woods*
John Wood*
2014
Teddy Wayne
Dan Josephson
2013
Pamela Sneed
Alena Dillon
2012
Brian Turner
James Arthur
