Emerson College Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: Megan Marshall and Danielle Legros Georges

The Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department of Emerson College is proud to present the first of the 2015-16 Faculty/Alumni Reading Series, beginning with Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall and Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges.

Professor Megan Marshall is an award-winning American scholar, writer, and biographer. Her first biography, The Peabody Sisters (2005), won the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Her second biography, Margaret Fuller (2013), won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction.

Danielle Legros Georges (’86) is an essayist, translator, and author of the book of poems, Maroon (2001). She was recently named Boston’s poet laureate and has received fellowships from LEF and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her awards in writing include the PEN New England Discovery Award. She is currently a professor at Lesley University.