Monday, January 26, 2026
4:45pm
Gailor Hall, Naylor Auditorium
Samyak Shertok, a candidate for the Assistant Professor in Poetry position in the English & Creative Writing Department, will read from his work in Naylor Auditorium at 4:45 pm on January 26th.
Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award. Originally from Nepal, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University.
