https://english.colostate.edu/events/creative-writing-reading-series-elizabeth-jacobson-erika-krouse/
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Elizabeth Jacobson and Erika Krouse
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 18, 2025
Elizabeth Jacobson’s third full-length collection, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, is from FVE/Parlor Press, 2025. Her previous collection, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) won the New Measure Poetry Prize, and the 2019 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. Jacobson was the fifth poet laureate of Santa Fe, NM and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches for and directs the poetry programs at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts and is a reviews editor for Terrain.org.
Erika Krouse is the author of four books of fiction and nonfiction, including her new short story collection, Save Me, Stranger. Her memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Colorado Book Award and Housatonic Book Award. Erika is a two-time winner of the Edgar Award, for Fact Crime and Short Story. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Erika mentors for the Book Project and the Portfolio Year at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, where she received the Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.
