Reading by Ricardo Wilson

Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 5:30 pm ET

Please join us next Tuesday, Feb 17th at 5:30 pm for a Reading with Professor Ricardo Wilson, McGill English Department’s Richler Writer-in-Residence for 2025/2026. (Location: Arts Building 160, 853 Sherbrooke W.)

Ricardo Wilson, a creative writer and scholar, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of The Outpost Foundation, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He has, most recently, extracted from the archive and edited Troubled Lands, a forthcoming and previously unpublished collection of short fiction from Mexico and Cuba translated by Langston Hughes in 1935 (Princeton University Press) and is the author of An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories (PANK Books) and The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Northwestern University Press). He is at work on his forthcoming novel Even Worse than the Nightmare.

At next week’s reading (Feb 17), Ricardo will share work from An Apparent Horizon (2021), as well as from Even Worse than the Nightmare (his forthcoming novel), and El Negrero (a forthcoming work of translation). There will be wine and other refreshments! I hope you to see you there and I encourage you to share this event widely.

Read a recent interview with Ricardo Wilson here.

More on the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program:

Situated in both the Department of English and the Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création (DLTC) within the Faculty of Arts at McGill, the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program brings a creative writer to the Department of English for one semester each year. By providing valuable insight into the creative process through events, student meetings, and workshops, the Richler WiR nurtures emerging student talent. Students take in practical and theoretical approaches to writing for such media as television, film, radio, stage, interactive media and print publications.