Join the CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Program and The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts in this special literary event: Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Mark J. Mirsky. Literary luminary, Joyce Carol Oates will share insights and inspiration on her long and prolific career writing in a number of genres.

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of the Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the Jerusalem Prize. She is the author of Butcher (Knopf, May 2024) as well as the national bestsellers We Were The Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Falls, The Gravediggers Daughter, and The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities emerita at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Mark J. Mirsky is an award winning author of thirteen books including five novels and a book of stories and novellas, and many critical studies. He has been the editor of FICTION since its founding in 1972. He is a Professor in the English Department, teaching literature and creative writing at CCNY for over 50 years.