
Sewanee School of Letters Grammer Fellow Reading
June 18 at 4:30 p.m.
Naylor Auditorium
The Sewanee School of Letters is proud to announce that our 2025 John Grammer Fellow is Megan Nolan. Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published in 2021 and was an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, published in 2023, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize for Fiction, the Gordon Burn Prize, and the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. She is currently at work on her first book of nonfiction. There will be books available for purchase after the reading.