Hope Wabuke Poetry Reading

Join the WRWS Reading Series for a poetry reading by celebrated writer, Hope Wabuke.

Hope Wabuke is the author of The Body Family, as well as several chapbooks: Movement No.1: Trains, The Leaving, and her. Her second full-length collection, Blood on the Leaves, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. Her creative and critical work has been published in Guernica, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salamander Literary Journal and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers and others. She is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at University of Nebraska Lincoln.