Cavanaugh Reading Series Lecture: Featuring Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist Sarah Minor
Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist Sarah Minor will deliver the Spring 2026 Cavanaugh Reading Series Lecture at St. John Fisher University.
Date:
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 7 p.m.
Location:
Black Box Theater at the Arts Center at Murphy Hall
Sponsored by the English Department, the event is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in the Black Box Theater at the Arts Center at Murphy Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel: An Essay on Seeing from Yale University Press (2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), and the chapbook The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press, 2016).
Minor's prose and visual poems have been collected in places like Best American Experimental Writing, A Harp in the Stars, and Welcome to the Neighborhood. She is the recipient of a Research Fellowship to Iceland from the American Scandinavian Foundation, a 2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her essay "Something Clear" was awarded the 2018 Barthelme Prize in Short Prose.
Minor serves as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry Editor at Brink Magazine and on the Nonfiction editorial team at TriQuarterly Review. She holds a PhD from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction MFA Program.
In addition to her writing practice, Sarah is one half of the collaborative duo Haag Cykell—an ongoing performance series with the artist Johanna Winters that explores modes of storytelling through shadow theater and language.
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Sponsored by the English Department