[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Viramontes/Munoz reading invitation

[Amanda J Labagnara]

The University of Redlands welcomes

 

 Helena Maria Viramontes 

and Manuel Muñoz

 

Tuesday May 15, 2007

 

Authors’  reception:  Alumni House. 4:00 p.m.

 

Reading:  7:00 p.m.  Hall of Letters 100.

Both events on the University of Redlands campus 

1200 E Colton Ave, Redlands CA 92373

 

Book-signing immediately following reading. A limited number of books will
be available for sale. 

 

Please RSVP for reception to eliza_rodriguezygibson at redlands.edu

 

Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories; Under
the Feet of Jesus, a novel; and the co-editor, with Maria Herrera Sobek, of
two collections: Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity
and Criticism.  Her latest novel is Their Dogs Came With Them.  The
recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2006 Luis Leal Award
and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, her short stories and essays
have been widely anthologized and her writings have been adopted for
classroom use and university study. A community organizer and former
coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association, she is a frequent
reader and lecturer in the U.S. and internationally.  Born and raised in
East L.A., Viramontes now lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is Professor
in the Department of English at Cornell University.

Manuel Muñoz is the author of The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, a collection
of short stories.  Zigzagger, his first short-story collection, was
published by Northwestern University Press in 2003.  He is the recipient of
a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Individual Artist's Grant in Fiction and
a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship for 2006.  His work
has appeared in many journals, including Rush Hour, Swink, Epoch, Glimmer
Train, Edinburgh Review and Boston Review, and has aired on National Public
Radio’s Selected Shorts.  A native of Dinuba, California, Manuel graduated
from Harvard University and received his MFA in creative writing at Cornell
University.  He now lives in New York City, where he is at work on a novel.

 

Questions? Please contact eliza_rodriguezygibson at redlands.edu

Co-sponsored by Diversity Affairs, English and Spanish.

 

 

 

 

 

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