[CW-Grad] Two Recent Graduates...Two Big Pieces Of News

[Tod Goldberg]

Hi all -- 

It's always hard in the summer to remember to tell the UCR 
world about important things, or at least it is out here in 
the desert where it's currently 100 degrees at 10:30pm, but I 
wanted to draw your attention to two very cool things from two 
of our recent graduates:

Rick Marlatt, the very first person admitted into the low 
residency and part of our inaugural graduating class, has just 
won the Seven Circle Press Chapbook contest for his first book 
of poetry, How We Fell Apart, which was written over the 
course of the last two years he was in the program. Rick was a 
screenwriting major and wrote his prize-winning book in cross-
genre courses with Matthew Zapruder and Jill Alexander 
Essbaum. For more info about Rick, visit: 
http://rickmarlatt.com/index.html

Meanwhile, Jeff Girod, who also just earned his degree in 
screenwriting, was awarded the National Humor Columnist of the 
Year award by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for 
his work each week in the Inland Empire Weekly. You can read 
more about Jeff and his award here: 
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2389


Back to boiling,

Tod












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Tod Goldberg
Administrative Director
MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Palm Desert Graduate Center
University of California at Riverside
75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA  92211
760.834.0928