<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Nalo Hopkinson has accepted our offer and will join us in the fall to teach science fiction courses. She was the unanimous choice of the committee and of the Creative Writing faculty, and we couldn't be more delighted.<div><br></div><div>If you would like to drop her a congratulatory email, her address is <<a href="mailto:nalohop@gmail.com">nalohop@gmail.com</a>></div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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Charles </i></b></font></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans"><i style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-style: italic; ">(Chuck)</i><b style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-weight: bold; "><i style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "> Whitney</i></b></font><o:p style="font-family: Helvetica; "></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2"><i>Office</i>: </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2">Department of Creative Writing, 4159 INTS, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 92521 / <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2">951.827.6076</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2">FAX 951.827.3619</font></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2"><i>Home</i>:</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2"> 6</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2">170 Kirk St., Riverside CA 92506 /<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="2">951.781.3497</font></span></font></span></div></span></i></b></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica; "><i style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>