Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long summer workshop hosted by Newport MFA, Salve's master of fine arts in creative writing program. All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.

Wyn Cooper is the author of six book of poems, including the newly released, The Unraveling.  His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Slate, Crazyhorse, AGNI, The Southern Review, and more than 100 other magazines. His poems are included in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, Poetry: An Introduction (Sixth Edition).

In 1993, “Fun,” a poem from his first book, was turned into Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do.”