[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: UCR Palm Desert - Reading in the Evenings: Alex Espinoza (Feb 24)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:27 AM
To: Amanda Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: UCR Palm Desert - Reading in the Evenings: Alex Espinoza
(Feb 24)


Dear Amanda,

Please forward this announcement to everyone.  Thanks, Maurya




UCR Palm Desert 
Master's of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing 
and Writing for the Performing Arts 
presents

Reading in the Evenings
Alex Espinoza
Lecturer, UC Riverside Department of Creative Writing  
Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1971. The youngest of
eleven children, he was raised in La Puente, a surburb of Los Angeles.
Alex  moved to the Inland Empire in 1991 and attended San Bernardino
Valley College before going on to earn his BA in Creative Writing from
UC Riverside. He went on to receive his MFA in Writing from UC Irvine in
2004. He has worked as a retail manager, a used appliance salesman, and
a gardener. He has written for Salon, and a chapbook entitled "Jesus
Stole My Bike" was published as part of the Chicano Chapbook Series
edited by poet Gary Soto. His first novel, tentatively titled Still
Water Saints, will be published by Random House in 2007. He teaches in
the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside
and lives in the area. He is currently working on a second novel.

February 24, Friday
 6:00 pm

UCR Palm Desert  <http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php> 
75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211 
(760) 834-0926

Visitor
<http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php?content=visitor/index.html>
Information:

Admission and Parking:  Free
Reservations:   (760) 834-0597

Information: Joe Frederickson  (760) 834-0590

______________________________________

UCR Palm Desert is a satellite campus of the University of California,
Riverside. UCR Palm Desert sits at the heart of the Coachella Valley
offering a Master's of Business Administration program in
Entrepreneurial Management through its Richard J. Heckmann International
Center for Entrepreneurial Management. The Educational Center offers a
Master's of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing & Writing for the
Performing Arts. Visit www.palmdesert.ucr.edu
<http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/>  or call 760-834-0800 for more
information.

Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 


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