The Department of English and World Languages sponsors visiting authors, who give public readings from their work and visit Tech classes.
William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available now from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
William Boyle will be visiting Arkansas Tech on October 2, 2025 to perform a reading from his most recent novel, Saint of the Narrows Street and a question and answer time in RPL 300AB.
Maria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Helen of Troy, 1993 is her debut poetry collection.
Maria Zoccola will be visiting Arkansas Tech on April 9, 2026 to read some of her poetry and and participate in a question and answer time in RPL 300AB.
| Samyak Shertok | S.A. Cosby | |
| Juliet Grames | Ramona Emerson | Jen Fawkes |
| Emily Skaja | Matt Bell | Renée Branum |
Witherspoon Hall 142
407 West Q Street
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0484
Email: engl@atu.edu
  |
  |