Past: An Evening with Award Winning Novelist Buki Papillon

Join us on Monday, April 17 at 6:30 pm on Southeast's campus in University Center Ballroom B for a reading from Maya Angelou Award Winning novelist Buki Papillon. The event is free and open to the public.

Buki Papillon was born in Nigeria. After studying law at Hull University in the UK, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, An Ordinary Wonder, has received rave reviews and mentions in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Essence, and Cosmopolitan, and is a Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors recipient, and a Ferro-Grumley Literary Award Finalist. Buki is an alumnus of Key West Literary Seminars, Vermont Studio Center and Vona Voices residencies and workshops. Her work was published in Post Road Magazine and The Del Sol Review. She has in the past been a travel adviser, events host and chef. Buki currently lives in Boston, where she is resigned to finding inspiration in the long winters.