Nov. 20: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – Muhlenberg College 2025 Living Writers Series

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Pictured left to right: Muhlenberg College 2025 Living Writer Series authors Lorrie Moore, Safiya Sinclair, Safia Elhillo, Roger Reeves, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

The Muhlenberg College 2025 Living Writers Series finishes strong on Nov. 20 with a free public reading, discussion, and book signing with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of “Everybody.”

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent theatre credits include “Purpose,” “Appropriate,” “The Comeuppance,” “Girls,” “Everybody,” “War,” “Gloria,” “An Octoroon,” and “Neighbors.” He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as vice president of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.

All Living Writers Series events are free and open to the public and will be held at 7 p.m. in Moyer Hall, Miller Forum. Books will be available for purchase and signing after each reading. Learn more about the authors on our website.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Muhlenberg College campus!

Sincerely,

The Muhlenberg College Creative Writing Program