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The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will begin its 2022-23 season on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. with readings by Allegheny alumni William Brewer and Ryann Stevenson. The event in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center is free and open to the public.

William Brewer’s debut novel, “The Red Arrow,” was published by Knopf in 2022. His book of poems, “I Know Your Kind,” was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation and The Best American Poetry series. A 2011 graduate of Allegheny, he received an MFA in poetry at the Writing Seminars of Columbia University. Brewer is a recipient of the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and he teaches at Stanford University.

Ryann Stevenson’s first book, “Human Resources,” was selected by Henri Cole for the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and is published by Milkweed Editions. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, The Cortland Review, Denver Quarterly
and Kenyon Review, among others. A 2010 graduate of Allegheny, she earned an MFA in poetry from Columbia College in Chicago, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize.

The Single Voice Reading Series is sponsored by the Sturtevant Lectureship fund at Allegheny College.