Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series

For more than forty years the Lindsey Literary Series has brought outstanding authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to central Texas to deliver free public readings of their work. In recent years, featured authors have included winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the MacArthur Fellows "Genius Grant," among many other awards.

The Lindsey Literary Series is sponsored by the Therese Kayser Lindsey Endowment, Texas State University’s Department of English and the Wittliff Collections.

We invite you to join us at Texas State University's San Marcos campus for the 2023-2024 reading series.

2023-2024 Lindsey Reading Series Schedule

Evie Shockley

The Wittliff Collections
Thursday, Sept. 14th, 3:30pm

Evie Shockley, poet and scholar, is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University. A Lannan Literary Award-winner, she is the author of multiple books of poetry including a half-red sea; the new black, which received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and semiautomatic, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018. Her latest book of poetry, suddenly we, was released in March 2023.

John Heimbuch

Texas State University - Flowers Hall 230

Monday, September 18, 5:00pm

John Heimbuch (Performer) is a writer, director, actor, and Artistic Director of Walking Shadow Theatre Company in Minneapolis. His award-winning one-man performances of Charlie Bethel's Beowulf and Gilgamesh have delighted audiences nationally since 2019. His plays William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow have been published by Samuel French, and produced throughout the world. When not making live theatre, he can be found creating short films or playing with the Neo-Victorian rock band Bad September.

Peter Hyoguchi

Texas State University - Flowers Hall 230

Thursday, October 5, 3:30pm

Peter Hyoguchi is a screenwriter, film director, and visual effects creator. He directed his first feature film at seventeen (an adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit), and in 2001 he won Best Feature Film at both the New York and San Francisco Independent Film Festivals for First, Last and Deposit. Peter has taught filmmaking at UCLA Film and TV and the New York Film Academy. His talk will be followed at 6:30pm by the premiere of The Tarot at the Performing Arts Center.  

Miller Oberman

Texas State University - Flowers Hall 230

Thursday, October 19, 3:30pm

Miller Oberman is a poet, editor and professor, and the author of The Unstill Ones, poems and translations, published as part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017.

He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a 92Y Discovery Prize, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Poems from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry, London Review of Books, the Nation, Boston Review, Tin House, and Harvard Review. Poems from his current project, “Impossible Things,” have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, and Foglifter. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes monthly visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download and print. He teaches poetry workshops at Brooklyn Poets, and teaches in and directs the First-Year Writing program at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Miller lives with his family in Queens, New York.

Jonathan Escoffery

The Wittliff Collections

Thursday, Jan. 25th, 3:30pm

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, an international bestseller. He is the recipient of American Short Fiction‘s 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection, The Paris Review’s 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Jonathan is a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.