Join the Creative Writing Program in celebrating the launch of Associate Director Jen DeGregorio’s debut poetry collection, What to Wear Out. Jen will be introduced by Professor Leslie Heywood; she will read from her collection and participate in a Q&A led by Creative Writing Director and Professor Tina Chang. Books will be for sale and refreshments served.

Jen DeGregorio’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Paterson Literary Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, and many other publications. Her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference; Binghamton University (SUNY), where she received a PhD in English; and Hunter College (CUNY), where she received an MFA in creative writing. She currently works as the associate director of creative writing at Binghamton, where she also teaches undergraduate creative writing as a lecturer. A former senior editor of Poets & Writers, she began her writing career as a newspaper reporter and holds a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.