FICTION WRITER JACQUELINE VOGTMAN OF HACKETTSTOWN AND POET JARED HARÉL TO PRESENT AT WARREN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

The Warren Community College Visiting Authors Series continues on Thursday, October 19, with readings by fiction writer and Hackettstown native Jacqueline Vogtman and poet Jared Harél. The event, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in room 123A, is free and open to the public.

Vogtman grew up in Hackettstown and attended Warren County Community College. She received the MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her book Girl Country (2023) won the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, and her fiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Permafrost, The Literary Review, Third Coast, Smokelong Quarterly, and other journals. She is Professor of English at Mercer County Community College and resides in a small town surrounded by nature, which she explores with her husband, daughter, and dog. Her website is jacquelinevogtman.com.

Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject, selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (U. of Nebraska Press, 2023), and Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018.) He’s been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review, as well as the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Paterson Literary Review, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, and The Sun. He teaches writing, plays drums, and lives with his family in Westchester, NY. His website is jaredharel.com.

The Visiting Authors Series is supported by a grant from the Warren County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs. All physical site facilities comply with ADA regulations and are fully accessible. Sign language interpretation for any VAS event is available with two weeks’ notice.

Warren Community College, located at 475 Route 57 West in Washington, NJ, offers creative writing workshops and literature courses throughout the year. To find out more about WCCC’s Creative Writing and English Department offerings, or for directions to the Washington campus, please visit www.warren.edu.

For further information, email ward@warren.edu.