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Great news! Alison's book is going to be amazing.
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<div>--MJ</div>
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<div id="divRpF516542" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> cwgrad-announcements-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [cwgrad-announcements-bounces@lists.ucr.edu] on behalf of Robin Russin [robin.russin@ucr.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu; cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu Announcements<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CW-Grad] Fwd: More MFA Alumni success!<br>
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<div>Clark Cooke passes along the following good news about Alison Minami:
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<div>Alison Minami's short story "Simone" was a finalist for the David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize. Yeah!</div>
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<div>The link:</div>
<div><a href="http://smu.edu/southwestreview/Meyerson%20Award%20Page%202012.asp" target="_blank">http://smu.edu/southwestreview/Meyerson%20Award%20Page%202012.asp</a></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Robin Russin<br>
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Associate Professor and Director</div>
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Department of Theatre<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
Riverside, CA 92521<br>
(951) 827-2707<br>
(213) 949-1061 cel<br>
<a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu" target="_blank">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a><br>
http://robinrussin.com<br>
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"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville<br>
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"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples<br>
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"Hunger is the best spice." - Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop," written by Keiko Nobumoto</div>
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