Cavanaugh Reading Series Features Author Sarah Minor
March 4, 2026
Writer and interdisciplinary artist Sarah Minor will serve as the 2026 Cavanaugh Reading Series guest speaker on Wed., March 18, at 7 p.m. The lecture will be held in the Black Box Theater at the Arts Center at Murphy Hall.
Minor is 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).
Her 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 Ph.D. from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an assistant professor in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA Program.
In addition to her writing practice, Minor 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.
The annual reading series was named in honor of the English Department’s friend and former colleague, Fr. John R. Cavanaugh. At the time of his passing in 2007, Fr. Cavanaugh had been associated with Fisher for more than 50 years, including more than 30 years as a member of the English Department.
Free and open to the public, the lecture is sponsored by the English Department and the School of Arts and Sciences.