Marianne Chan, MFA, assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, reads from her poetry collection "All Heathens," in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall, 75 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. "All Heathens" revisits Magellan's voyage around the world and navigates Chan's Filipino heritage by grappling with diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. It won the 2021 Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement. Chan's second poetry collection, "Leaving Biddle City," is a coming-of-age narrative that explores the Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia. Her individual poems have appeared in outlets including the Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, American Literary Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her reading, part of the Department of English's Visiting Writers Series, will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book signing. Admission is free. Learn more about the department at owu.edu/English.