Kellogg Writers Series: Christian Moody
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Date
November 20, 2025
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Time
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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UIndy Hall A
Schwitzer Student Center, University of Indianapolis

Christian Moody
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025 | 7:30-8:30pm
Schwitzer Student Center, UIndy Hall A
Fiction Reading
About: Christian Moody’s debut short story collection, Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds, won the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. His stories have been published in Esquire.com, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, the Best New American Voices anthology, and the Best American Fantasy anthology, among others. Moody earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He’s been in residence at the Yaddo Artist Colony, Breadloaf, Sewanee, and elsewhere. In 2021, he was a Creative Renewal Fellow of the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and he’s received awards and fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Charles Taft Center for the Humanities, along with many others.
Free and open to the public! For UIndy students, the event is LP credit approved.