Creative Writing Reading Series with Jennifer Maritza McCauley & Nicole Chung

by Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | October 30, 2020

Online
https://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/j/97227300864?pwd=ZnROL0cwN0lsSEpiYTBKTlRXSmRJUT09 

 

Jennifer Maritza McCauley is a writer, teacher and editor. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from Best of the Net, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. She is presently fiction editor at Pleiades, and was formerly poetry editor and contest editor at Missouri Review. She received her PhD in creative writing & literature from the University of Missouri. Her cross-genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF was released in 2017 on Stalking Horse Press. She teaches at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Nicole Chung's nationally bestselling debut memoir All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, TIME, and Library Journal, among many others. Nicole has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, TIME, Longreads, Vulture, and Hazlitt, and has taught writing workshops for Kundiman, Catapult, and PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools program. She is the editor in chief of the National Magazine Award-winning Catapult magazine, co-editor of the immigration anthology A Map Is Only One Story, and the former managing editor of the beloved, now-shuttered website The Toast.