On Wednesday, April 1, from 5:30 to 7:00pm, join us at the museum for the Visiting Writers Series with author Josiah Morgan. Every year the Visiting Writers Series brings noted poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction to campus for readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. This April welcomes Māori writer and artist Josiah Morgan from New Zealand for a reading and Q&A session.

About the Author: Josiah Morgan is a writer and artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand working across literature, theatre, performance art and curatorial practice. He is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently i’m still growing (2024, Dead Bird Books). His novella, Road: A Postlapsarian Comedy (Feral Dove Books) won the Macmillan Brown Writers Prize from University of Canterbury in 2022. He is also the writer of a hybrid-text poetic-horror-memoir derived from memories, impressions and readings of Tobe Hooper’s film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, of which it shares a title. For Auckland Pride 2024, Josiah Morgan performed a full reading of his book The Texas Chainsaw Massacre whilst running a half marathon, among other things, alongside sound artists Bernadine Gladding and Shaun McTague. He believes in magic and the power of words to transform.

Livestream: YouTube @visitingwritersserieswsu6690

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.

Image: Josiah Morgan “I’m Still Growing”