Wilkes to Host Guest Writer Daniel Torday on April 10

by Kelly Clisham
headshot of daniel torday taken outside with a tree and building in the background

The Wilkes University English Department will close its 2024 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by guest artist Daniel Torday at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in the Kirby Hall Salon.

Torday is the author of three novels: The Last Flight of Poxl West, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and an International Dublin Literary Award nominee; Boomer1 and The 12th Commandment.

Torday’s work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Paris Review Daily and Tin House, and has been honored in both the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays series.

A two-time National Jewish Book Awardee and winner of the 2017 Sami Rohr Choice Prize, he is the director of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.

For more information, visit wilkes.edu/dickson.

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