<div dir="ltr">Congratulations, Vickie!<div>Susan Straight</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:50 PM Robin Russin <<a href="mailto:rrussin@ucr.edu">rrussin@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Vickie!!! Huge congrats, can’t wait to read! Let us know if you’ll have a signing in LA!<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Robin Russin</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Professor</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts<br>Chair Emeritus, Region VIII KCACTF National Playwriting Program<br>University of California, Riverside</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Rhodes Scholarship, ‘79 Class Leader<br><span dir="ltr">Riverside, CA 92521</span><br><span dir="ltr">(951) 827-2707</span><br><span dir="ltr">(213) 949-1061</span> cel<br><br>"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville <br><br>"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Director, “When I Sing”</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">(available on Amazon Prime)</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Trailer: <span dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj3_iItFk0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj3_iItFk0</a></span><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Writer, “2 Hearts”<br>(available on Netflix)<br>Trailer: <span dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZKctOWsgI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZKctOWsgI</a></span></span></div><div><span dir="ltr" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span dir="ltr" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Director, “The Anxiety of Laughing”</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span dir="ltr">Trailer:</span><span dir="ltr">  </span><font><a href="https://vimeo.com/658674241" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/658674241</a></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Books (with William Missouri Downs): “Screenplay: Writing The Picture” and “Naked Playwriting”</span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 25, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Vickie Vertiz <<a href="mailto:vickievertiz@gmail.com" target="_blank">vickievertiz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px" dir="auto"><p dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif">Saludos, everyone!</font></p><p dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif">Great news! My </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">new collection of poems </span><a href="https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203931/autobody/" style="font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank"><em>Auto/Body</em></a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> will be published by the </span><a href="http://undpress.nd.edu/" style="font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank">University of Notre Dame Press</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> as the Sandeen Prize winner in February 2023. I hope to share this work with you in person or in your classrooms.</span></p><p dir="auto"><b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The book is</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> available for pre-order </span><a href="https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203931/autobody/" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:blue" target="_blank">on this webpage</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> and other online vendors. Teacher copies are also available from the ND website! Otherwise, enter this code for a</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> 20% discount: </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">14FF20</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">. </span></b></p><p dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">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)</span><br></p><font face="georgia, serif"></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto" role="textbox" aria-label="Message Body"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px" dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif"></font><p dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif">NOTRE DAME, IN, October 19, 2022—Vickie Vertiz is the 2022 winner of the <a href="https://undpress.nd.edu/books/?series=ernest-sandeen-prize-in-poetry" target="_blank">Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry</a>. Vértiz is an award-winning Mexican American poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>, and the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>.<br></font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif">Her first poetry collection, <em>Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut</em>, was published in the Camino del Sol Series at The University of Arizona Press. The collection won a 2018 PEN America literary prize.</font></p><p dir="auto"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Ernest </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Sandeen</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> Prize in Poetry is sponsored by the </span><a href="https://english.nd.edu/creative-writing/" style="font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank">Creative Writing Program</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> 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.</span><br></p><p><font face="georgia, serif">For more information, contact: Kathryn Pitts at e: <a href="mailto:pitts.5@nd.edu" target="_blank">pitts.5@nd.edu</a>, p: 574.631.3267.</font></p></div><br>
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