The  English Department's creative writing program presents author Hilary Plum, the first Visiting Writer in the 2023-24 series. She will read from her work as part of annual Visiting Writers series. This programming is funded by the  College of Arts and Sciences .

Hilary Plum  (she/her) is a writer, editor and teacher living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She is the author of five books, including  Excisions (2023), a volume of poetry;  Hole Studies (2022), an essay collection; and the novel  Strawberry Fields (2018), which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. With Zach Savich, she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program, and she serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center.