Writers Series Events
Mary Gaitskill: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, September 17, 2010, 6–8 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Note: Special 6 p.m. start time for this event only
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About Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of Because They Wanted To (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (Simon & Schuster,1991). Her novel Veronica (Vintage, 2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist for that year. The story "Secretary," from her debut collection Bad Behavior (Vintage, 1989), also a National Book Award finalist, was made into a film of the same name in 2002 with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York. Her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry (Pantheon, 2009), is now out in paperback.
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Monique Truong: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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About Monique Truong
Born in Siagon, North Vietnam, in 1968, Monique Truong is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her first novel, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), was a national bestseller and the recipient of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles National Literary Award, an Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award, and a Seventh Annual Asian American Literary Award. Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) is her second novel.
In 2003 The Book of Salt was honored as a New York Times Notable Fiction Book, a Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction Book, one of the Village Voice‘s 25 Favorite Books, and one of the Miami Herald‘s Top 10 Books, among other citations. Truong was a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellow, a Princeton University Hodder Fellow, and is now a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.
Read the Lambda Literary interview with Monique Truong.
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Walter Kirn: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Walter Kirn
A 1983 graduate of Princeton University, Walter Kirn has published a collection of short stories and several novels, including Thumbsucker (Anchor, 1999), which was made into a 2005 film featuring Tilda Swinton and Vince D'Onofrio; Up in the Air, a feature film directed by Jason Reitman, starring George Clooney; and Mission to America. He has also written The Unbinding, an internet-only novel that was posted in Slate magazine.
Kirn has reviewed books for New York Magazine and has written for The New York Times Book Review and New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is a contributing editor at Time. Kirn has also served as an American cultural correspondent for the BBC.
In addition to teaching nonfiction writing at the University of Montana, Kirn was the 2008–9 Vare nonfiction writer in residence at the University of Chicago. He received his BA in English at Princeton University in 1983 and studied English Literature at Oxford University.
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Lecture and Readings by Donald Revell and Claudia Keelan
Presented as part of CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9505
Since 1994 Donald Revell has been a professor of English at the University of Utah, where he now serves as director of creative writing. He was editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988-94, and he has been poetry editor of the Colorado Review since 1996. Revell is the author of eight collections of poetry. He has translated two volumes of the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Shestack Prize, the Gertrude Stein Award, the PEN Center USA Award for poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A graduate of SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Buffalo, Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, and Denver.
Claudia Keelan is a graduate of Humboldt State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now director of the MFA program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is the author of five collections of poetry and a letterpress chapbook, and has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, Electronic Poetry Review, Conduit, Pequod, American Letters & Commentary, and Jacket Magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in the anthologies The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood and American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry.
This event is sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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David Means: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 8, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
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About David Means
David Means's short stories have been compared to those of Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, and Flannery O'Connor. Means's work has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Harper's. Frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt, or along New York's Hudson River, he's an expert at capturing the reality of American life.
His short story collections include A Quick Kiss of Redemption (William Morrow & Co, 1991), Assorted Fire Events (Mariner Books, 2002), The Secret Goldfish (Harper Perennial, 2005), and The Spot (Faber & Faber, 2010). Means is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the O. Henry Prize, and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
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Matthew Zapruder: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 22, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
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About Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), and was selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Luxbooks has recently published Der Pyjamaista, a separate German-language graphic novel version of the poem “The Pajamaist,” translated by Ron Winkler and illustrated by Martina Hoffman.
Zapruder is also cotranslator of Secret Weapon (Coffee House Press, 2007), the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu. Zapruder's poems, essays, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in publications such as Open City, Bomb, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and the Los Angeles Times.
His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in many anthologies, including Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and Best American Poetry 2009. In fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas, and received in 2008 a May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Camille T. Dungy: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 29, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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About Camille T. Dungy
Camille Dungy is the author of Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). A finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award, Dungy is associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.
She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Cave Canem, The Dana Award, the American Anitquarian Society, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Dungy has also been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rocky Mountain National Park and the Ragdale Foundation. Her poems have been published widely in anthologies and in print and online journals.
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Andrew Joron: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, November 5, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
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About Andrew Joron
Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955, Andrew Joron grew up in Stuttgart, Germany; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Missoula, Montana. Adept at multiple genres such as experimental poetry, prose poems, and essays, Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s earlier poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008).
The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. He is also the translator of German Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998). Joron has won the Rhysling Award three times for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006.
He lives in Berkeley, where he works as a freelance bibliographer and indexer.
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Monica Youn & Matt Shears: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, November 12, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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About Monica Youn
Monica Youn graduated from Princeton University, Yale Law School (with a JD), and Oxford University (with a masters in philosophy), where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her first collection, Barter, was published by Graywolf Press in 2003. Her second collection, Ignatz, was a series of poems loosely based on the mouse character from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s and 1930s. Youn’s inventive poem "Stealing The Scream", about the theft of Edvard Munch’s famous painting of the same title, imagines the crime scene to be a work of art in and of itself.
Youn's poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Tin House and Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Her awards include the 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. She works as an attorney in Manhattan and teaches at Columbia University.
About Matt Shears
Matt Shears is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Where a Road Had Been (BlazeVOX). His work has appeared in such journals as Boston Review, Cutbank, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly and Volt. Currently teaching at California College of the Arts, Shears holds a BA from the Miami University of Ohio, an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Nevada, where is was a Schaeffer Fellow.
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