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

[Michael Jayme]

Yes!!

Definite felicidades on this next book and the prize that ushers it into
the world!

So looking forward to reading it, and to seeing you present from it at some
future point.

M


On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:49 AM Ruben Quesada <rubenquesada at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Felicidades, Vickie! I love your first collection and I can’t wait for
> this one!
>
> Abrazos!
>
> From my iPhone — Ruben Quesada
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2022, at 10:51 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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