Writers Series presents Lillian Yvonne Bertram, Santee Frazier, and Kirsten Kaschock
St. Lawrence University Writers Series. Celebrating 25 years of the Viebranz Visiting Professorship. Welcome back Lillian Yvonne Bertram, Santee Frazier, and Kirsten Kaschock for a writers craft talk and reading. Writers Series events are free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
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Writers Craft Talk, Carnegie 10, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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Reading, Sykes Common Room, 8 p.m.
About the Authors
Lillian Yvonne Bertram
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an African American writer, poet, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of computation, AI, race, and gender. They are the author of Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes, Personal Science, a slice from the cake made of air, and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise. Their most recent full length poetry book, Negative Money, was published in 2023, and their chapbook, written with AI, is called A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content and won the 2023 Diagram/New Michigan chapbook contest. They are co-editor with Nick Montfort of the recently released anthology Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023. They are a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow and 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts poetry grant recipient and 2024 Deutsch Foundation Ruby’s Grant recipient. They direct the MFA in creative writing program at the University of Maryland.
Learn more about Lillian at their website.
Santee Frazier
Santee Frazier. A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty was published in the University of Arizona Press Sun Tracks series. Frazier’s honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, the Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Studio & Research Residency Siena. The University of Arizona Press released his second collection of poems, Aurum, in 2019.
Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock was born in Ithaca, New York. She has earned degrees from Yale University, University of Iowa, Syracuse University, University of Georgia, and Temple University. A Pew Fellow in the Arts and Summer Literary Seminars grand prize winner, she is the author of six poetry books: Unfathoms, A Beautiful Name for a Girl, The Dottery, Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer, Explain This Corpse, and AutoPortrait (as flotsam), forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel, Sleight. Her epistolary horror novel, An Impossibility of Crows, won the Juniper Prize for fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. She lives in Baltimore with her partner, Daniel Marenda.
Learn more about Kirsten at her website.