The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to welcome author Rajiv Mohabir as its 2025-26 Walton Visiting Writer in Translation.

Mohabir will read from his work at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Walker Room at the Fayetteville Public Library. The event, presented in conjunction with the library's True Lit literary festival, is free and open to the public, and a Q & A and book signing with Mohabir will follow the reading.

Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of five acclaimed poetry collections: The Taxidermist's Cut, Cowherd's Son, Cutlish, Whale Aria and the forthcoming Seabeast; a book of translation, I Even Regret Night; and his hybrid memoir, Antiman. He is winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize, a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, finalist for the 2017 and 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. Mohabir has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nationʻs Artist foundation, Kundiman, The Home School and the American Institute of Indian Studies language program. He received his M.F.A. in poetry and translation from Queens College, CUNY, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Hawai`i. Mohabir is currently a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Each year, the Walton Visiting Writers series in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation brings esteemed authors in poetry, fiction and literary translation to the U of A to give free public readings and to work with graduate students in the creative writing M.F.A. program.

Past Walton Visiting Writers include Robin Becker, Idra Novey, Kate Briggs, Brandon Hobson, Rachel Mennies, Jane Hirshfield and Kelli Jo Ford.

This event is made possible by the Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Walton Family Foundation and the Fayetteville Public Library.