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1 October 2025 Trias Reading Series Welcomes Dantiel Moniz
Award-winning author shares from her debut book Milk Blood Heat.
Dantiel Moniz will read from her collection Milk Blood Heat on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. in Bartlett Theatre as part of the Trias Reading Series.
The event is free and open to the public.
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption and what we may, or may not, owe one another.
“The stories in this book are rigorous and complex, lush and surprising,” says New York Times best-selling author and previous Trias Writer in Residence Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. “They are visceral, full of intimate awe existing in flesh.”
Milk Blood Heat has been shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award.
Moniz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among the awards she’s received include a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and fellowships from Yaddo, The Lighthouse Works, United States Artists and MacDowell. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, American Short Fiction and Tin House.
The final Trias Reading Series speaker will be Joseph Earl Thomas who will come to campus on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Thomas’ talk will be held at 7 p.m. in Bartlett Theatre.
