reading | friday, February 28 | 7–9 PM | free
The UNM Creative Writing Program’s MFA Reading Series, Works in Progress (WIP), is returning to FUSION! Join us for WIP at FUSION | The Cell on February 28, at 7 PM!
At WIP, four MFA students in the creative writing program will read from a work in progress, accompanied by one Russo Professor. The February 28 readers are Joe Byrne, Amy Dotson, Gwyneth Henke, Julie Peterman, and visiting Russo Professor Sara Daniele Rivera. All the grad students reading are in fiction, and they're all in their final semester. This is their farewell tour!
This FREE event is open to the public. We hope you join us!
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban/Peruvian artist, writer, translator, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her poetry and fiction have been published in literary journals and anthologies and use both speculative and realist lenses to explore themes of grief, migration, memory, and the liminal spaces between language and silence. Her drawings, sculptures, and installations focus on text-in-space as social intervention and draw on practices of communal storytelling to bring moments of curiosity and tenderness to public art. She often develops projects through community-based collaborations. She translates between Spanish and English, focusing primarily on Peruvian poetry. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband, cats, and turtles.
Her debut book came out last year from Greywolf—it's called The Blue Mimes.
ABOUT UNM CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
UNM’s English Department offers a full array of creative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Undergraduate students may register for introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops in all three genres. Additionally, they are invited to attend readings sponsored by UNM’s Masters of Fine Arts Program and participate as readers on Blue Mesa Review. Qualifying undergraduates interested in pursuing creative writing on the graduate level are encouraged to work with a faculty mentor on a creative writing Honors Thesis. And every fall undergraduate creative writers compete for the prestigious Lena Todd Awards, a small cash stipend and the opportunity to share their work at the Works-in-Process Reading Series.
UNM’s MFA Program in Creative Writing is designed for graduate students committed to pursuing the writing life. This three-year degree combines studio-based workshops in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with craft seminars and coursework in literature, teaching pedagogy, and professional writing.
Quality bar service provided by Safe House Distilling Co. and Teller Genuine Vodka.
