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Alum and poet Dior Stephens visits us to speak about their book Cruel/Cruel. This is an extra special event as the volume is published by Nightboat Press, where MFA Writing faculty and Creative Capital Award winner Trisha Low is an editor.

Cruel/Cruel is a response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.

Dior J. Stephens is a proud Midwestern pisces poet. He is the author of SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!, all with Ghost City Press. Dior holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy program at the University of Cincinnati. Dior hopes to be a dolphin in his next life. Dior’s preferred pronouns are he/they. He tweets at @dolphinneptune and Instagrams at @dolphinphotos.