The Friends of Steely Library Presents:
2025 Michael Berry Literary Series Featuring Author – Crystal Wilkinson
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30p.m.
W. Frank Steely Library, Farris Reading Room (Second Floor)
Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction – The Birds of Opulence, Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky, where she is Bush-Holbrook Professor in Creative Writing.
This event will feature a reading by Ms. Wilkinson, a Q&A with the audience, and a chance to purchase a book and have it signed by the author.
Register today to attend this FREE event!

