Eula Biss, a NYT Bestselling essayist, Hampshire alum, and Joan Leiman Jacobson Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, will read from new works in progress.

Bio: Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, 2020), which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and named a Best Book of the Year by Time and NPR. Alexander Chee praised it as “a brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” For the past twenty years, Biss has taught writing in large lecture halls and small community bookstores, at public elementary schools and private universities. She developed a commitment to progressive education at Hampshire College, where she studied creative writing and visual art before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently at work on a collection of essays about how private property has shaped our world.