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MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING at THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

presents

Chai and Chat Reading Series

Irvin Weathersby Jr.

The Bernard Mendik Guest Professor

In conversation with MFA Director Michelle Valladares

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
6:30PM-7:30PM
Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316

Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. In Open Contempt is his first book.

Sponsored by The Bernard Mendik Fund and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts at the City College of New York

Free and open to the public