What: In support of the First Year Experience theme, Just Living, we welcome Chris Abani. Chris 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 Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

When: Wednesday, October 14, at 7 p.m.

Where: Soda Activity Center, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga

For more information: Contact New Student and Family Programs at (925) 631-4647

Sponsored by: Deans & Directors Committee in Association with the MFA program and First Year Experience

Free and Open to the Public

Abani on humanity