Visiting Author Series: Keetje Kuipers & Susanna Childress

The UCCS Visiting Author Series proudly presents writers Keetje Kuipers and Susanna Childress as part of its Fall 2026 line-up. A public reading featuring both will be held in-person at the Heller Center and online, followed by a Q&A session, and booksigning. Light refreshments will be served. Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poems is Lonely Women Make Good Lovers. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and her poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies . She lives in Montana and is Editor of Poetry Northwest .