Library Foundation presents two professors and authors in conversation
The Johann Fust Library Foundation is excited to present a unique program featuring two professors from the University of Central Florida, Chrissy Kolaya and David James Poissant, in a conversation about writing on Tuesday, April 4 at 4 p.m.
Chrissy Kolaya and David James Poissant are scholars and inspired writing teachers, but beyond that, they are published authors. They will interview one another. All are invited to what promises to be an inspiring program for our community’s readers and aspiring writers.
Kolaya is a poet and fiction writer, and author of “Charmed Particles” and two books of poems: “Any Anxious Body” and “Other Possible Lives.” Her work has been included in anthologies by Norton, Milkweed Editions and in several literary journals.
In Charmed Particles, Kolaya brings two families to life. Her novel traces the collision of past and progress, science and tradition, and the unimagined elements that may arise in the aftermath.
Kolaya is passionate about collaboration and has worked with filmmakers and composers on adaptations of her work. She teaches in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Central Florida, where she was awarded a 2022 Reach for the Stars Award, one of the university’s highest faculty honors.
David James Poissant is the author of the novel “Lake Life” (Simon & Schuster, 2020), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, Publishers Weekly Summer Read, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2020 and a New York Public Library Book of the Day.
David James Poissant
Lake Life is a sweeping, domestic novel about a family that reunites at their North Carolina lake house for one last vacation before the home is sold—and long-buried secrets are finally revealed.
Poissant’s story collection “The Heaven of Animals” was a winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review and in various textbooks and anthologies including “New Stories from the South,” “Best New American Voices” and “Best American Experimental Writing.” His books are currently in print in seven languages.
This Literary Series event with Chrissy Kolaya and David James Poissant will be on Tuesday, April 4 at 4 p.m., in the loggia and courtyard of the Johann Fust Library. There is no charge for this program, but advance registration is required. To register, visit the Library Foundation’s website JFLFBG.org or call the Foundation’s office at (941) 964-0211.
