[Cwgrad-announcements] Correction: Amy Stolls Visit & Talk- April 26th

[Maurya Simon]

Dear All,

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE AMY STOLLS TALK ON 4/26 WILL BEGIN AT 3:30 PM, AND NOT 
AT 3:00 PM, AS I EARLIER ANNOUNCED.

I hope to see you there--

Thanks,
Maurya

At 12:04 PM 4/18/2007, Amanda J Labagnara wrote:
>
>Dear All,
>
>NEA administrator, environmental journalist, and novelist, Amy Stolls, 
>will be coming to campus on Thursday, April 26th to talk about 
>applications for NEA Fellowships, other arts funding for writers, life 
>after receiving an MFA, and a number of other topics relevant to all of 
>us.  I urge you to attend her informal and informative talk on the 26th, 
>which will be held from 3:00-5:00 pm in Rm. 1500 HMNSS.
>
>Also, if you'd like to come to an early dinner at Ciao Bella with Ms. 
>Stolls and several faculty (around 5:30 pm), please RSVP to me or Amanda ASAP.
>
>Here's a bio for Amy Stolls:
>
>As Literature Program Officer for the National Endowment for the Arts, Amy 
>Stolls manages the grants program in literature for organizations and 
>individuals.  Her responsibilities run the gamut from facilitating review 
>panels to advising non-profit organizations on the creation, presentation, 
>preservation, accessibility, and/or educational value of literary 
>projects.  Since 1998, she has reviewed more than 1,500 proposals from 
>organizations and thousands more from individual writers, has moderated 
>more than 25 panels, and worked with more than 300 authors, translators, 
>editors, booksellers, publishers, and other experts in the field.  From 
>1988 to 1996, Ms. Stolls was an environmental journalist who gained 
>international recognition for her coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil 
>spill.  She has an MFA in Creative Writing from American University, where 
>she has taught courses on contemporary literature.  Her first novel, Palms 
>to the Ground (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was awarded a Parents Choice Gold 
>Award in 2005.  She is currently at work on her second novel entitled The 
>Ninth Wife.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Maurya
>
>
>
>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

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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/cwgrad-announcements/attachments/20070419/820fd134/attachment-0001.html