Events

Melissa Febos MFA ’08 is the national bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and a new memoir, The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, LAMBDA Literary, the Black Mountain Institute, the British Library, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Best American Essays, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She is a Professor at the University of Iowa.

Donika Kelly is the author of The Natural Order of Things, The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and Pushcart Prize winner. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join us for an Athletics Hall of Fame Induction at the Campbell Sports Center. The Athletics department will be inducting Mary LeVine, former Director of Physical Education & Athletics, Megan Angelini '07, and Sophia Spralja '19 into the Gryphons Hall of Fame! Refreshments will be served. Register here. 

Music Tuesday will spotlight faculty with violist Junah Chung. Described as a spirited and dynamic performer, a passion for chamber music led him to found the Greenburgh Chamber Players with his wife, violinist Ragga Petursdottir, bringing classical music to their local area in Westchester, NY. As an active solo recitalist, today’s performance will include works by Bach, Vieuxtemps, Hindemith, and Mozart. 

How much of ourselves do we put on the page? Where’s the boundary between who we are as people and who we are as writers? How do we not take feedback personally? In modern publishing, there’s an expectation for authors to be present in the promotion and marketing of their work. It can be difficult to navigate the pressures of being a presence while staying true to yourself and your craft. This talk will cover the power and pitfalls of vulnerability as writers, from when we’re alone with our drafts to initial shares to pursuing a path in publishing and beyond.

Register here for the Zoom livestream. 

Rachel Harrison is the USA Today bestselling author of Play Nice, So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in her debut collection Bad Dolls.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Westchester Chamber Soloists' second concert of the 2025-26 season will be Sunday, November 23 at Sarah Lawrence College.

Event and Season Subscription Tickets can be purchased via the WCS website. (Sarah Lawrence College Faculty, Staff and Students will receive free admission).

Congratulations to our winter graduates! 

Graduating students will receive four guest passes for this celebration. We look forward to formally acknowledging and celebrating our winter graduates’ accomplishments as part of spring commencement in May. Information on how to participate in Commencement 2026 will be shared with graduates after the new year.

Please email events@sarahlawrence.edu with any questions.