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

[Alex Espinoza]

Beautiful, Vickie. Enhorabuena.


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*Alex Espinoza*
Associate Professor
Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
Department of Creative Writing
INTN 3046 | alex.espinoza2 at ucr.edu
www.alexespinoza.com



On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 8:51 AM Susan Straight <susans at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Congratulations, Vickie!
> Susan Straight
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:50 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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