Featuring poets Suzanne Buffam and Srikanth Reddy.

Suzanne Buffam was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She earned an MA in English from Concordia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry collections include “Past Imperfect” (2005) and “The Irrationalist” (2010). She has received the CBC Literary Award for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Buffam teaches at the University of Chicago.

Srikanth Reddy grew up in Chicago. He earned an AB from Harvard College, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in English literature from Harvard University. He is the author of the collection of poems “Facts for Visitors” (2004). Reddy’s awards include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Mellon Foundation. His poems have appeared in the anthologies “Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation” (2004) and “Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets” (2004). Reddy is the literacy director for the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Chicago.

This event is presented by the St. Louis Poetry Center. For more information, visit stlouispoetrycenter.org.