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Join us for an evening in conversation with vivacious Jeffrey Greene, a multi-faceted American writer living in France. A poet at large, Jeffrey also publishes fiction and creative non-fiction, with topics ranging from quiet Americana to wild boars in the forests of Burgundy. How is he able to be successful as a multi-genre writer? What is his creative process, and how does this flexibility as a writer evolve? We’ll also hear about his recent book of most recent collection of poetry, Beautiful Monsters, and his historical fiction projects in the works.

Praise for Beautiful Monsters:

With this new book, Jeffrey Greene has become a type of endangered species: a thoroughly mature poet who, with high artistry and deftness of hand, brings us face to face with the shadows and light of life's unconquered mysteries.

-- Ellen Hinsey

About Jeffrey Greene

Jeffrey Greene is the author of four collections of poems, the memoir French Spirits, and two personalized nature books, including The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest (2011), and Water From Stone (2008).  His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Agni, and his short fiction is The Paris Anthology (Tightrope Books, Canada). He is the recipient The Samuel French Morse Prize, The Randall Jarrell Prize and “The Discovery”/The Nation Award. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Humanities Texas. He has taught at the Goddard College MFA Program, University of New Haven, University of Houston and is currently teaching at the American University of Paris.