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Kellogg Writers Series: Christina Thatcher & Abigail Parry

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  • Date

    April 7, 2026

  • Time

    7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

  • UIndy Hall A

    Schwitzer Student Center, University of Indianapolis

Christina Thatcher & Abigail Parry

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | 7:30-8:30pm

Schwitzer Student Center, UIndy Hall A

Poetry Reading

About: Christina Thatcher grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She won a Marshall Scholarship to undertake two MAs in the UK, after which she completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University, where she is now a lecturer. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Poetry Wales, The North, The Poetry Review and more. Her three poetry collections with Parthian Books are More than you were (2017), How to Carry Fire (2020), and Breaking a Mare (2025). Christina has toured internationally, reading her work in the UK, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Switzerland, and Romania.

Abigail Parry’s poems have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Ballymaloe Prize and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, Jinx (2018), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection, and named a Book of the Year in The New Statesman, The Telegraph, and Morning Star. Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023, was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the English-language Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year 2024). Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish, Serbian, and Japanese, and performed or exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean, and the US.

Free and open to the public! For UIndy students, the event is LP credit approved.