Upcoming Visiting Writers
Lydia Kang
Wednesday, April 29
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Union 73 Coffee Shop
Free and open to the public
Lydia Kang is an associate professor of internal medicine and an award-winning and bestselling author of adult fiction, young adult fiction, and science non-fiction, including Opium and Absinthe, Star Wars: Cataclysm, and the Nebraska Book Award winners, The November Girl and Patient Zero. Her nonfiction includes Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, an NPR Science Friday Best Book. She is the author of the recently released Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them (Workman Publishing) and K-Jane (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins), a Kirkus Best Book of 2025.
Past Visiting Writers
Tyler Jacobs | Author of The Weight of Drought and Building Brownville. Poems have been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s Friday LIVE.
Charlene Piece | Founder and President of the Nebraska Poetry Society. Poem, The Good Life Review, nominated for “Best of the Net.”
David Lee | Utah’s first poet laureate. 2021 finalist-runner up for United stated Poet Laureate. Author of two dozen volumes of poetry.
