Friday, Sept. 25th (7:30pm)
KRISTIN NACA

UTSA 1604 Campus
University Room
Business Building
(2.06.04))

Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in northern Virginia, Kristin Naca earned her B.A. at University of Washington, her M.F.A. at University of Pittsburgh, and, in 2008, her Ph.D. in English at University of Nebraska. Her book, Bird Eating Bird, winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in 2009. Since 2002, Naca has been a member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, TX, where she spends most of her time when she is not teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in The Cinncinati Review, Indiana Review, Octopus, and Prairie Schooner.

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This reading is sponsored in conjuntion with The Macondo Foundation, which works with dedicated and compassionate writers who view their work and talents as part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change. To learn more about Macondo’s Writing Workshops, Grants and Residencies, visit them at: http://www.macondoworkshop.org

Alan Shapiro has published ten books of poems, three books of non-fiction, and also translations of Aeschylus and Euripides. His work has earned him numerous awards and honors, including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry, the 2001 Kingsley Tufts Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. He has taught in Creative Writing programs at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, at Warren Wilson, and at Northwestern University. His most recent book, Old War, appeared in 2008, and a new book, Night of the Republic, is due out from Houghton Mifflin in 2011.

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Achy Obejas’ latest novel, Ruins, was published by Akashic Books in March 2009. Her other books include Havana Noir, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized and published in literary magazines. She is the translator, into Spanish, of Junot Diaz’s Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and, into English, of the upcoming anthology, Mexico City Noir. Achy Obejas is currently the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago.

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Friday, April 16th (7:30pm)
WORDFEST

UTSA 1604 Campus
University Room
Business Building
(2.06.04)

Please join us for our 8th Annual Wordfest, a celebration of student achievement in creative writing, featuring readings by UTSA writing faculty along with recipients of the Davidson-Shaddox Creative Writing Scholarship for undergraduate excel-lence in creative writing, the Wendy Barker Award for graduate creative writing excellence, and the Steven G. Kellman Award for undergraduate excellence in creative nonfiction.

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Free Parking is available for all Reading Series Events at the 1604 Campus in unmarked spaces in Lot #5. Short-term metered parking is available in the South Garage, in the North Garage, and in Lots #7 and #8. For a detailed map, click here.

Sagebrush Review also hosts readings every semester featuring writers from the UTSA community. For more info about these journals and the readings they host, click here.