Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
We are pleased to announce that Kali Fajardo-Anstine will join us for an invited lecture on Cather and the reader experience. In her introduction for the 2023 Penguin Classics edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, Fajardo-Anstine writes, "The novel reminded me of my insatiable childhood reading habits...Cather had awoken in me a type of pleasure-reading that over the years had eroded with deadlines, assignments, and the long list of reasons why we do not read out of desire but instead out of duty." We look forward to hearing more from Fajardo-Anstine about the readerly imagination that Cather's work inspires.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2022-2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.
