[Crwt-undergrad-info] UCR MFA Alumni UCR Alumni Vickie Vertiz wins Notre Dame’s Sandeen Prize

[Robin Russin]

Vickie!!! Huge congrats, can’t wait to read! Let us know if you’ll have a signing in LA!

Robin Russin
Professor
Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
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Director, “When I Sing”
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Writer, “2 Hearts”
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Director, “The Anxiety of Laughing”
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Books (with William Missouri Downs): “Screenplay: Writing The Picture” and “Naked Playwriting”

> On Oct 25, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Vickie Vertiz <vickievertiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Saludos, everyone!
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> Great news! My new collection of poems Auto/Body will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press as the Sandeen Prize winner in February 2023. I hope to share this work with you in person or in your classrooms.
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> The book is available for pre-order on this webpage and other online vendors. Teacher copies are also available from the ND website! Otherwise, enter this code for a 20% discount: 14FF20. 
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> The poems in this collection are an inexhaustible engine—sometimes a body, sometimes flesh—a sensual exploration of what it means to repair, to remake, to keep going even when rebuilding feels impossible. From odes to drag, to pushing back on the tyranny of patriarchy, to loving too hard and too queer, to growing up working-class in a time of incessant border violence and incarceration, this collection combusts with blood and fuel. (Press release below)
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> NOTRE DAME, IN, October 19, 2022—Vickie Vertiz is the 2022 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. Vértiz is an award-winning Mexican American poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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> Her first poetry collection, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, was published in the Camino del Sol Series at The University of Arizona Press. The collection won a 2018 PEN America literary prize.
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> The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame in conjunction with Notre Dame Press. The prizes are awarded to authors who have published at least one volume of poetry.
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> For more information, contact: Kathryn Pitts at e: pitts.5 at nd.edu, p: 574.631.3267.
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