This author reading is co-sponsored by the Graduate Writers Association, the Creative Writing Program, and the John C. Hitt Library. Kristen Arnett is a native Floridian and the author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (Riverhead Books, 2025), which was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize and shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize. She is also the author of With Teeth, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Fiction, and the New York Times bestselling debut Mostly Dead Things, which was likewise a Lambda Literary Award finalist and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.