Archway Reading and Lecture Series to Host Author Eiren Caffall

The Archway Reading and Lecture Series at the University of Dubuque will host a reading by author Eiren Caffall at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in the Multicultural Student Center at the Peter and Susan Smith Welcome Center on campus.

The event is free and open to the public. It will include a question-and-answer session with Caffall.

An author and musician based in Chicago, Illinois, Caffall is the author of the award-winning memoir The Mourner's Bestiary (Row House Publishing, 2024) and the novel All the Water in the World (St. Martin's Press, 2025). Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer's Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and Elements: Volume IV: Fire (The Center for Humans and Nature, 2024).

Caffall received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for The Mourner's Bestiary and a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship in environmental journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has been awarded residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Millay Colony for the Arts, MacDowell (waitlisted), Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Additionally, Caffall has guest lectured at universities across America, taught creative writing for the Chicago Humanities Festival, and more.

The Archway Reading and Lecture Series is presented by the Office of Academic Affairs and Department of English at UD.