Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Kimberly Johnson
The Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing and the USD English Department cordially invite you to the next of our 2024-2025 events, a reading by scholar and poet Kimberly Johnson. The reading will take place on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 6 p.m., in Manchester Hall Auditorium. The reading will be followed by a dessert reception and book signing.
Johnson will also give the biannual Joanne T. Dempsey Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 4 p.m., in the Manchester Hall Auditorium. A reception will follow the lecture. Both events are free and open to the public.
Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator and literary critic. Her work has appeared widely in publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, PMLA and Modern Philology. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Arts Council and the Mellon Foundation. Johnson holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact the Cropper Center for Creative Writing Director and Associate Professor Brad Melekian, at melekian@sandiego.edu.
Sponsored by University of San Diego’s Cropper Center for Creative Writing and the Department of English.
The Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing was established at USD in 2004 with a generous gift from Barrie and Dorothy Cropper in memory of their daughter, Lindsay J. Cropper, an alumna of USD, an English major and aspiring writer, who died tragically in 2000. The purpose of the center is to foster the appreciation and practice of creative writing at the University of San Diego by hosting an annual Writers Series, sponsoring a literary journal, promoting the development of writing courses and granting awards for creative writing.
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