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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Maurya Simon
[mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 24, 2006 10:27
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Amanda Labagnara<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: UCR Palm Desert -
Reading in the Evenings: Alex Espinoza (Feb 24)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Dear
Amanda,<BR><BR>Please forward this announcement to everyone. Thanks,
Maurya<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080 size=5><B>UCR
Palm Desert</FONT><FONT color=#000080 size=6> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#000080
size=4>Master's of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing <BR>and Writing for
the Performing Arts <BR>presents<BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
size=5>Reading in the Evenings<BR></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=6>Alex
Espinoza<BR></FONT><FONT size=4>Lecturer, UC Riverside Department of Creative
Writing <BR></B></FONT>Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico in
1971. The youngest of eleven children, he was raised in La Puente, a surburb
of Los Angeles. Alex moved to the Inland Empire in 1991 and attended San
Bernardino Valley College before going on to earn his BA in Creative Writing
from UC Riverside. He went on to receive his MFA in Writing from UC Irvine in
2004. He has worked as a retail manager, a used appliance salesman, and a
gardener. He has written for <I>Salon</I>, and a chapbook entitled "Jesus
Stole My Bike" was published as part of the Chicano Chapbook Series edited by
poet Gary Soto. His first novel, tentatively titled <I>Still Water Saints</I>,
will be published by Random House in 2007. He teaches in the Creative Writing
Department at UC Riverside<BR>and lives in the area. He is currently working
on a second novel.<BR><BR><FONT color=#000080 size=4><B>February 24,
Friday<BR> 6:00 pm<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php">UCR Palm Desert
<BR></A></B></FONT><FONT color=#000080>75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm
Desert, CA 92211 <BR>(760) 834-0926<BR><BR><B><A
href="http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php?content=visitor/index.html">Visitor
Information:<BR><BR></A>Admission and Parking:
Free<BR>Reservations: (760) 834-0597<BR><BR></FONT>Information:
<FONT color=#000080>Joe Frederickson </FONT>(760) 834-<FONT
color=#000080>0590<BR><BR></B></FONT>______________________________________<BR><BR><B>UCR
Palm Desert</B> is a satellite campus of the University of California,
Riverside. UCR Palm Desert sits at the heart of the Coachella Valley offering
a Master's of Business Administration program in Entrepreneurial Management
through its Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial
Management. The Educational Center offers a Master's of Fine Arts program in
Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts. Visit <A
href="http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/"
eudora="autourl">www.palmdesert.ucr.edu</A> or call 760-834-0800 for more
information.</BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>Maurya Simon<BR><BR>Professor <BR>Department of Creative
Writing<BR>University of California Riverside<BR>900 University
Avenue<BR>Riverside, CA 92521-0318<BR><BR>TEL. (951) 827-2006
(office)<BR><BR>FAX: (951) 827-3619 <BR></P></BODY></HTML>