Georgia Cloepfil’s nonfiction debut, “The Striker and the Clock” was published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Bloomsbury (U.K.) in July, 2024. Her other writing can be found in The Yale Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, n+1, Colorado Review, Joyland and Epiphany, among other places. Select essays have been featured on Longreads, The Rumpus, and WBUR Boston’s Only a Game. She holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and works at Whitman College as Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rhetoric.

The Visiting Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Department of English, the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, the Lawrence Parke Murphy and Robert Goldstein Trust, and by generous donations from the extended Whitman community.