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| Reading I: March 16th, 2009 | |
| Our first reading of the semester featured writers from the ASU Tempe Creative Writing Faculty. Thanks to our collaboration with the Poly CSA, our menu included:Swiss Chard Boules Stuffed w/ Chili Pepper Risotto, Roasted Vegetable Dumplings w/ Dipping Sauce, Local Orange Pico de Gallo w/ Tortilla Chips, and Lemonade. An article about the reading appeared in the East Valley Tribune. | |
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has published five collections of poetry: Where the Parallels Cross, The Woman in Red, The Never Wife, Flux, and The Incognito Body. Her poems have been praised for their intelligence, elegant compression, and chiseled syntax. |
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is the author of Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie (in collaboration with the artist); The Girls Next Door; Magician; and The Pirate Princ, co-written with Cape Cod treasure hunter Barry Clifford, about Clifford's discovery of the pirate ship Whydah. |
| Reading II: April 20th, 2009 | |
| Our second reading featured ASU undergraduate creative writing students. | |
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Briana Conatser was born and raised in Winslow, Arizona. Graduating from Winslow High School, Briana was the Valedictorian of the class of 2006. Currently in her third year at Arizona State University and possessing a 4.09 G.P.A, she plans to graduate a semester early with a BA in English-Creative Writing in December of 2009. The focus of her academic career lies in research and creative writing with an emphasis on writing for film and television. Tonight she will be reading her short story entitled Absence. |
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Dolmii Dee Remeliik is from Palau, a group of small islands in the South Pacific. She is a senior in Creative Writing, and hopefully one day will write and publish children's literature as well. She loves works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jane Austen, Flannery Oconnor, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Christopher Moore, Agatha Christie, Kate DiCamillo, Rick Riordan, and many more. She would also like to teach, mainly young children in grade school, whose imaginations are still rich and fantastical. |
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Kimberly Jakubowski was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised there until her family moved to Arizona when she was ten. She now lives in Mesa with her father, mother, and two brothers. She graduated from Highland High School and spent her freshman year at the University of Arizona, then happily transferred to ASU last semester. She is currently a sophomore, pursuing a double major in English (creative writing) and Psychology with a minor in History. |
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Melissa Tse is a junior in Chinese and English literature. She competes nationally for ASU Forensics and has been a recipient of both the Jules Anatole and Swarthout prize in fiction. Outside of class, she loves to cook vegetarian dishes, collect high-top sneakers, and watch East Asian foreign films. Over the summer, she plans to study abroad in China and read lots of dense books. |
