English Honor Societies is proud to host its 2026–2027 Author Webinar Series, featuring critically acclaimed authors whose work spans genres, voices, and perspectives. These virtual events offer students and educators direct access to contemporary writers whose stories challenge, inspire, and connect us. We hope to see you at the events.
Texts by all authors included in the 2026–2027 series can be purchased via the English Honor Societies’ Bookshop.org page.
Rob Macaisa Colgate, Author of Hardly Creatures
Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. (CT)
Rob Macaisa Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama My Love is Water (2025). Currently based in Chicago, he serves as managing poetry editor of Foglifter Journal and was the inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability. A graduate of the New Writers Project at University of Texas at Austin, he is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Fulbright.
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