Amarillo College will welcome internationally renowned poet, storyteller, musician and playwright Joy Harjo for a public lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26 in the AC Concert Hall Theatre at AC’s Washington Street Campus, as part of the Creative Mind Lecture Series, sponsored by the Amarillo College Foundation.

A renowned and highly decorated Amarillo-born author whose short stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, GQ, and Harper’s Magazine, will headline the 2024 Amarillo College Creative Mind Lecture Series on April 4th.

George Saunders, whose body of work has propelled him to such lofty laurels as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Man Booker Prize and, most recently, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, returns to his roots to headline one of the College’s most popular perennial events.