Caleb will write poems in response to the current exhibit, Vignettes by Suzanna Fields, and will share these in a reading at the gallery open to the public!

Caleb Nolen's debut poetry collection, Afterlight, was selected by Jennifer Chang for the 2025 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published in June by the University of Utah Press. Nolen holds a MFA from the University of Virginia and has received support from Blue Mountain Center and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where he was a work-study scholar. Individual poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife, Autumn in Staunton.