Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold a Plains Writers Series on Thursday, May 1, 2025. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.

This Plains Writers Series will feature Jim Daniels. The reading will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College and will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.

ABOUT THE READER:

Jim Daniels’ six previous fiction collections have received many prizes, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, a Midwest Book Award, a Michigan Notable Book of the Year Award, and a Finalist Award for the Paterson Fiction Prize. He has authored numerous poetry collections, four produced screenplays, and has edited six anthologies, including RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music. He is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.