Creative Writing Reading Series
Fall 2009
A "Meet the Authors" Book Club course featuring books by this semester's visiting writers is being offered through the Weekend College. For more information, click here.
Matthew Zapruder
Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Born in 1967 in Washington, DC, Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator. His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and his second collection, The Pajamaist, won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, was published in 2007. A former Lannan Literary Fellow, he was awarded a May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. Currently a resident of San Francisco, Zapruder works as an editor for Wave Books and teaches in the low-residency program at UC-Riverside-Palm Desert.
Rachel Howard
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saint Albert Hall Library
A freelance dance correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, Rachel Howard has published her work in the New York Times; O, the Oprah Magazine; San Francisco Magazine, the Village Voice; Dance Magazine; and other publications. Her first book, The Lost Night, a memoir about the emotional aftermath of her father's unsolved murder, was published in 2005. A member of the San Franciso Writers Grotto, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jack Marshall
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and lives in California. The author of several collections of poetry and the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish Arabic Family in Midcentury America, Marshall has received a PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. His latest book is The Steel Veil.
Chris Abani
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Chris Abani is a poet and novelist whose books include The Virgin of Flames, Hands Washing Water, Daphne's Lot, and GraceLand. He is a professor at the University of California Riverside and the recipient of numerous awards, including a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Susan Steinberg
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Susan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections The End of Free Love and Hydroplane. She received an M.F.A. in writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been awarded Fellowships from the University of Massachusetts and Corporation of Yaddo and was the Alan Colins Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Rebecca Wolff
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saint Albert Hall Library
Rebecca Wolff is the founding editor and publisher of Fence and Fence Books, and of The Constant Critic, a poetry review website. Her books of poems are Manderley, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series in 2000; Figment, which won the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and The King. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amhert and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives in Athens, New York, in the Hudson Valley, and is a fellow of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany.
Graduate Student Reading Series
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Juan Alvarado, Sarah Green, Meg Hurtado, Erin McCabe, Isaac Smith, Toby Wendtland.
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