Celebrated fiction writer Claire Jiménez will read from the novel that garnered her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction—“What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez”—a 2023 Grand Central Publishing book. The event is free and open to all.

Gender Studies Speaker-Time and location TBA

Mississippi State University’s Department of English offers high school students an opportunity to immerse themselves in Mississippi’s rich legacy of literature—demonstrating the multitude of educational and professional options available to English majors—at an inaugural English Expo this fall.