David Haynes Book Reading: Georgia K. Johnston Writer-in-Residency Program

David Haynes is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. His seventh and most recent novel is "A Star in the Face of the Sky" (New Rivers Press, 2013). In 2023, Penguin Classics published the 30th-anniversary edition of his first novel, "Right by My Side." His next book, "Martha’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories," is forthcoming. He is also the author of a series for children called “The West Seventh Wildcats,” centering on the adventures and travails of a multiethnic middle-school clique. Haynes spent 15 years as a K-12 teacher in urban schools, mostly teaching middle grades in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he directed the creative writing program for 10 years. Since 1996 he has taught regularly in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, among other places. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Kimbilio, a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories.

For more information, email Devin Johnson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/events.php