Sponsored by the Dean, Arts & Humanities Division and the Department of Literature
Salvador Plascencia
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
4:30pm
Visual Arts Performance Space

Salvador Plascencia was born in 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Plascencia's mother was a seamstress, his father a factory worker who moved frequently between California and their home in Jalisco. He grew up at his grandparents' farm, where his extended family passed along a wealth of stories, some of which formed the inspiration for The People of Paper. His family eventually settled east of Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when Plascencia was 8 years old. At the time, he spoke no English. Salvador Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. He received a National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Award in Fiction in 1996 and the Peter Nagoe Prize for Fiction in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, becoming its first fellow in fiction. The People of Paper is Plascencia's first novel. His first published fiction appeared in McSweeney's Issue 12. 

Contact Lorraine  Graham or Nikolai Beope to enable your access and participation.

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

February 10, 2010

4:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

 

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is a Mexican writer, born in Tijuana in 1962. He has published Puro border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera; Idos de la mente; Estrella de la Calle Sexta; Lo que estará en mi corazón (Ña’a ta’ka ani’mai); The Moon Will Forever Be a Distant Love; No quiero escribir no quiero; El gran PRETENDER; Mujeres en traje de baño caminan solitarias por las calles de su llanto, and Marcela y el rey al fin juntos.

His editorial and literary work has received various prizes in Mexico. He won a grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the Young Creators category in 1990, and of the State Fund for Culture and the Arts in the category of Established Writers in 1995. He is now a member of the National System of Creators.

Contact Lorraine  Graham or Nikolai Beope to enable your access and participation.

Ben Lerner

Thursday, February 25, 2010

4:30 p.m.

Literature Building, Room 155 (deCerteau)

Ben Lerner has a BA in political science and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University.  He has taught creative writing and literature courses at Brown and California College of the Arts.  Lerner is the author of two books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures (2004) and Angle of Yaw (2006), both published by Copper Canyon Press. He co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts. His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry and Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry anthologies, among many other publications. 

Lerner was a 2003 Fulbright Fellow in Spain. The Lichtenberg Figures won the Hayden Carruth Award, was a Lannan Literary Selection, and was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library journal. Angle of Yaw was a finalist for the National Book Award. 

Contact Lorraine  Graham or Nikolai Beope to enable your access and participation.

Joanne Dobson

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

4:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

Joanne Dobson is a novelist, essayist, English professor and creative writing teacher. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times opinion pages, and she has taught at Fordham University, Tufts University and Amherst College. She was a research fellow, at the National Endowment for the Humanities (1990), an Agatha Nominee for her mystery novel Quieter then Sleep (1997), Noted Author of the Year, at New York Library Association (2001), and a Creative Arts Fellow for American Antiquarian Society (2004). She is the author of numerous mystery novels, including Quieter Than Sleep, The Raven and the Nightingale, Cold and Pure and Very Dead, and The Maltese Manuscript. Her most recent novel, Death without Tenure, was released by Poisoned Pen Press of this year.

Contact Lorraine  Graham or Nikolai Beope to enable your access and participation.

Directions to UCSD and Preferred Visual Arts Performance Space Parking

From the North, Exit #28 La Jolla Village Drive, Right on La Jolla Village Drive, Right on Villa La Jolla Drive. The Gilman Parking Structure will be directly in front of you where Villa La Jolla Drive intersects Gilman Drive.

Directions to Lot P510. Right on Gilman Drive, Follow Gilman drive--it curves to the left (north), Left at Voigt Drive. Lot P510 will be on the right. If you pass the swimming pool, you have gone too far.

Directions to the VAF Performance Space from the Gilman Parking Structure. Walk north up Russell Lane, past Pepper Canyon Hall. The Performance Space will be on the right

Directions to the VAF Performance Space from Lot P510. Walk along Voigt Drive towards campus. After you pass the pool, take a left on Lyman Lane. As you walk down this road, there will be an athletics field on the left and a construction site on the right. Right on Lyman Lane (the same road). On the left see "Artists Lane" and "Outback Adventures." Just after that, see a driveway on your left going up hill into a complex of buildings, which comprise the Visual Arts Facility, opposite a physics laboratory. Go into the VAF and walk straight. At the end, see the Performance Space.
 

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