The Sewanee School of Letters continues its series of events this week with a faculty reading at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 21, in Naylor Auditorium with Ryan Chapman and Meera Subramanian. A reception follows in Gailor Atrium. The public is invited. This event is co-sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Ryan Chapman is the author of “Riots I Have Known” (Simon & Schuster), which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a best book of 2019 by Electric Literature and The Marshall Project. NPR praised it as “one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year,” and The Washington Post called it “a compact cluster bomb of satire that kills widely and indiscriminately.” He’s published criticism and short humor pieces at The New Yorker, The Guardian, GQ, Bookforum, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and The Believer, and interviewed writers and visual artists for Guernica, Esquire, Frieze, and elsewhere. He has guest-lectured at The New School, Bard College, and Columbia University, and held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the James Merrill House. A graduate of the University of Puget Sound, he currently lives in Kingston, New York.

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist whose work has been published in national and international publications including the New York Times, New Yorker, Nature, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she serves as a contributing editor. Her book “A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka,” published by PublicAffairs in 2015, was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award, and she is currently collaborating with illustrator Danica Novgorodoff on a YA nonfiction graphic novel about youth climate activists. She has explored the disappearance of India’s vultures, questioned the “Good Anthropocene,” sought out fragile shorelines, and investigated perceptions of climate change among conservative Americans. Her essays have been anthologized in the “Best American Science and Nature Writing” (2022 and 2015), “Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones that Haunt Us” (Algonquin 2022), “The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate” (Catapult 2022), and “Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World” (The University of Virginia Press 2023), as well as multiple editions of “The Best Women’s Travel Writing.” A National Geographic Explorer, she has also served as an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow (2016-17), Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow (2013-14), and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University (2019-2020). She earned an MA in Journalism from New York University and is currently a co-director of the Religion & Environment Story Project. She is based on a glacial moraine that belongs to the People of the Dawn, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, in what is now called Massachusetts.

The School of Letters offers an MFA in creative writing under the directorship of Justin Taylor. Please visit the School’s website <letters.sewanee.edu> for more information on the program.