Megan Pinto, MFA, poet and 2014 Ohio Wesleyan graduate, reads from her poetry collection "Saints of LittleFaith," in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall, 75 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
The collection engages with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness. Pinto's poems confront these realities while simultaneously envisioning life as holy and the divine as capable of gentleness.
Her work has appeared in Guernica, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has earned scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Storyknife, and the Peace Studio.
She earned the 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review and was selected for the Poets & Writers 2024 Get the Word Out poetry cohort.
Her reading, part of the Department of English's Visiting Writers Series, will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book signing. Admission is free. Learn more about the department at www.owu.edu/English.