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The NEOMFA, Kent State University Department of English, and the Wick Poetry Center present a multidisciplinary reading and discussion:

James Hannaham

Writer and visual artist James Hannaham reads from recent work and discusses his multidisciplinary practice in fiction, nonfiction, text-based artwork, and more

Hosted by Anthony Tognazzini

Thursday, April 16, 2026
7:00 pm

Oscar Ritchie Hall Theatre
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

Free and open to the public, with no tickets or reservations required!

Info at neomfa.org

James Hannaham is a writer, a visual artist, or both. His novel Delicious Foods won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book. He has shown text-based artwork at The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Open Source Gallery, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, and won Best in Show at Main Street Arts’ exhibit Biblio Spectaculum. In 2021 he released Pilot Impostor, a multigenre book inspired by an anthology of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry. His third novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, released in 2022, won the Ferro-Grumley Award from the Publishing Triangle, a second Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2022, an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and also a New York Times Notable Book.