📚✨ Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Waldorf University ✨📚

📚✨ Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Waldorf University ✨📚

Please join us for a night of stories and essays from Bailey Gaylin Moore and Donald Quist, our double-header event in Waldorf University’s long-running Distinguished Visiting Writers Series!

🎉 This event is FREE and open to the public.

🖋️ About the Writers

Bailey Gaylin Moore is the author of Thank You for Staying with Me, an IPPY Gold and International Book Awards winner. She has been featured in Poets & Writers, Oxford American, The Writer’s Chronicle, AGNI, Brevity, Pleiades, and other journals. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of PAST TEN and edited The Past Ten: An Anthology, which features writers reflecting on where they were ten years ago.

Donald Quist is the author of two essay collections, Harbors, a Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner and International Book Awards Finalist, and To Those Bounded. He also wrote the linked story collection For Other Ghosts. His writing has appeared in AGNI, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, and The Rumpus, and was listed as Notable in Best American Essays.

Quist is also the creator of the online nonfiction series PAST TEN. He has received fellowships from Sundress Academy for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Kimbilio Fiction. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.

📅 Event Details

When: March 26, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

🌟 Come enjoy an evening of literary conversation, storytelling, and essays from two accomplished writers. We hope to see you there!