Readings are free and open to the public. Reception is at 6:30 pm. Readings begin at 7 pm in the Rakoff Theater on the second floor of Chancellors Hall. Writers Speak Wednesdays »

Jennifer Acker is founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Common, and the author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. She teaches writing at Amherst College.

Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of Shirley: A Novel, which is soon to be a major motion picture starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg.