Paige Dalto ’24, staff writer

“Writing: A Life,” LVC’s free reading series, will welcome author and poet Samantha Zighelboim in March.

For the spring semester, LVC’s second visiting writer is both a poet and translator. Not only can students learn about Zighelboim’s experience as a writer, but also about her fluency in another language. 

In addition to her writing career, Zighelboim currently works as a professor of creative writing at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design.

Her debut collection of poetry, “The Fat Sonnets,” was published in 2018, and she has since co-translated Luis Chaves’ book “Equestrian Movements.” Zighelboim’s works center around firsthand experience with weight stigma as well as the struggles and pleasures of living in a fat body. 

“‘The Fat Sonnets’ really dives into both the misunderstandings and stereotypes people hold about fat bodies and the pleasures of being alive in any body – eating, intimacy and art,” Dr. MC Hyland, assistant professor of English and creative writing, said, “In addition to being formally experimental and about an important topic, Zighelboim’s poems are both moving and fun.”

This series allows students of all majors and interests to come together and learn more about diversity in literature. “Writing: A Life” allows students to have close contact with a variety of authors and provides insight into the literary world, as well as authors’ experiences with writing and publishing.

Zighelboim will host her reading session in the Bishop Library Atrium on Monday, March 20, at 7 p.m. Those who prefer to attend via Zoom can register through this link.