The Faculty Reading Series: Jeffrey Bean and Darrin Doyle

Jeffrey Bean is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella’s Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Sugar House Review, Poet Lore, and The Laurel Review, among other journals. For more, visit www.jeffreybeanpoet.com.

Darrin Doyle is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novella Let Gravity Seize the Dead (Regal House Publishing). His other works include the novel The Beast in Aisle 34 and the story collection, The Dark Will End the Dark (Tortoise Books). His fiction has appeared in Hobart, Passages North, Summerset Review, Word Riot, Puerto del Sol, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and watches too many horror movies. For more, visit www.darrindoyle.com.