Ariana Benson: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-6-2025
Location
University Theatre, Old Dominion University
Author/Artist Bio
Ariana Benson’s debut poetry collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize Award. A southern Black ecopoet, Benson’s work has received fellowships & awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, Furious Flower, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and others. Benson is a proud alumna of Spelman College, where she facilitates creative writing and storytelling workshops for HBCU students.
Description
The reading took place on Monday, October 6, 2025, at 3:00 PM in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University.
Recommended Citation
Benson, Ariana, "Ariana Benson: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2025). 48th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 5-10, 2025. 1.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2025/1