CREATIVE WRITING READING SERIES

SPRING 2013

Wednesday, February 20, 7 p.m. with Visiting Writer, Kazim Ali

Soda Center, Claeys Lounge

KAZIM ALI is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, essay and translation. His most recent book is Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. Sky Ward: New Poems will be published this spring. Other books include Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He teaches Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College and in the Stonecoast MFA program.

Wednesday , March 20, 7 p.m. with Visiting Writer, Lou Berney

Soda Center, Claeys Lounge

LOU BERNEY is the author of the novels Gutshot Straight and Whiplash River. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The New England Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and elsewhere. He has written feature screenplays and created TV pilots for, among others, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Focus Features, ABC and Fox. Currently he teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Oklahoma City University.

Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. with Visiting Writer, Susan Griffin

Soda Center, Claeys Lounge

SUSAN GRIFFIN’s most recent work is an anthology she co-edited, Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World. Among her nineteen books, A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Northern California Book Award. Celebrated for her elegant prose as well as her innovations in literary form, she has been the recipient of an NEA Grant, a Macarthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

MFA Alumni and Faculty Reading

Wednesday, May 08, 7 p.m. with Visiting Writer with Brett Fletcher Lauer and Christopher Sindt

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER is the managing director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor at A Public Space. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s, jubilat, Tin House and elsewhere. His first book of poems, A Hotel in Belgium, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2014. He graduated from St. Mary’s MFA program in 2007.

CHRISTOPHER SINDT is the author of the poetry collection, The Bodies. He has received the James D. Phelan Award and residences at the MacDowll Colony, Mesa Refuge and the Blue Mountain Center. His poetry has appeared in Pool, nocturnes and Xantippe. Formerly the Program Coordinator of the Art of the Wild Writing Conference, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.  He is Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies at Saint Mary's College of CA.

ALL READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For More information on The Creative Writing Reading Series please contact Sara Mumolo, (925)631-8556 or sm13@stmarys-ca.edu.