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

[Allison Hedge Coke]

Congratulations on this book, this award, and on the new addition, too!


*Allison Adelle Hedge Coke*
*2022-2023 Mellon Dean’s Professor*
*Center for Ideas & Society*
*Distinguished Professor*
*Creative Writing, School of Medicine,*

*& the proposed Dept. of Society, Environment, & Health Equity (SEHE) *
*2022-2023 Mellon Dean's Professor*
<https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>

*Center for Ideas and Society
<https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>*

*Weird Times, Be Kind*
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
<https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh>
Director, Writers Week 2021, 2022 <http://writersweek.ucr.edu>, Co-Director
in 2023
Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest
author/editor of 18 books
Most recent release, *Look at This Blue
<https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue>*

She/her
Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen


On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 2:50 PM Robin Russin <rrussin at ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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
> Chair Emeritus, Region VIII KCACTF National Playwriting Program
> University of California, Riverside
> Rhodes Scholarship, ‘79 Class Leader
> Riverside, CA 92521
> (951) 827-2707
> (213) 949-1061 cel
>
> "I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick,"
> written by Herman Melville
>
> "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven,"
> written by David Webb Peoples
>
> Director, “When I Sing”
> (available on Amazon Prime)
> Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj3_iItFk0
>
> Writer, “2 Hearts”
> (available on Netflix)
> Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZKctOWsgI
>
> Director, “The Anxiety of Laughing”
> Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/658674241
>
> 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:
>
> 
>
> Saludos, everyone!
>
> Great news! My new collection of poems *Auto/Body*
> <https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203931/autobody/> will be published by
> the University of Notre Dame Press <http://undpress.nd.edu/> as the
> Sandeen Prize winner in February 2023. I hope to share this work with you
> in person or in your classrooms.
>
> *The book is available for pre-order on this webpage
> <https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203931/autobody/> and other online vendors.
> Teacher copies are also available from the ND website! Otherwise, enter
> this code for a 20% discount: 14FF20. *
>
> 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)
>
>
> NOTRE DAME, IN, October 19, 2022—Vickie Vertiz is the 2022 winner of the Ernest
> Sandeen Prize in Poetry
> <https://undpress.nd.edu/books/?series=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*.
>
> 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.
>
> The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry is sponsored by the Creative Writing
> Program <https://english.nd.edu/creative-writing/> 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.
>
> For more information, contact: Kathryn Pitts at e: pitts.5 at nd.edu, p:
> 574.631.3267.
>
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