Tyehimba Jess, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, and Hasanthika Sirisena, winner of the 2016 Juniper Prize for Fiction, are this month’s Kowald Reading Series guests at The City College of New York. Sirisena, a 2006 alumna of City College’s MFA program in creative writing in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, reads from her work 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Rifkind Center, NAC room 6/316. In addition to the Juniper Prize, Sirisena received the 2008 Rona Jaffee Award, a top honor presented to emerging women writers of exceptional talent. Jess will read in CCNY’s Shepard
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