Raymond Carver Reading Series: Maya Binyam, the Jane and Daniel Present Lecturer

The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences presents the Raymond Carver Reading Series.

Maya Binyam is the author of Hangman, which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Literature at Claremont McKenna College and an advisory editor of the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

All readings take place in Watson Hall. They begin at 5 p.m. and are preceded by a question-and-answer session that begins at 4 p.m. They are open to the public.

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