The first night of the 2025 In Print Festival of First Books features a literary fair, author reading, and book signing. Activities start at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom and end at 9:00 p.m. with a book signing.
- 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: Literary Fair
- 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Reading by Geoff Peck, Nicole Graev Lipson, Yalie Kamara
- 8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Book Signing with Visiting Writers
This year's In Print writers are Geoff Peck, Nicole Graev Lipson, and Yalie Kamara.
Geoff Peck is a writer and professor at Winona State University. In total, his fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have appeared in over thirty journals. He was nominated for Best New American Poets after winning the Thomas McGrath Prize by the Academy of American Poets, and his debut novel, City of Clans was published by the University of Iowa Press.
Nicole Graev Lipson is the USA Today bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other venues. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Best American Essays, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.
Formerly muscle for the Internal Revenue Service, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review and SIR Press, publisher of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize. He teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and educator from Oakland, Ca. Her debut poetry collection, Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions, 2024), was the winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and is the winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration (The Hawkins Project, 2022). An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies