BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121002T203000Z DTEND:20121002T203000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cristina Garcia::Reading and Book Signing DESCRIPTION:READING AND BOOK SIGNING \nTHE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS\nTuesday\, Octover 2nd at 3:30pm\n\nCristina Garc a is the author of five novels: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Ag ero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, and The Lady Matador's Hotel\, recently published by Scribner. Garc a has edited two anthologies\, Cuban simo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. Two works for young readers\, The Dog Who Loved the Moon\, and I Wanna Be Your Shoebox were published in 2008. A collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death\, was published in 2010. Her newest work\, Dreams of Significant Girls\, is a young adult novel set in a Swiss boarding school in the 1970s. Garc a's work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers' Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. She will serve as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.\n \nThe event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation\, The Wittliff Collections\, and the Texas State University Department of English.\n \n(Books available during and after the event through the University Bookstore)\n \n \nALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

READING AND BOOK SIGNING \;
THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS
Tuesday\, Octover 2nd \;at 3:30pm

Cristina Garcí\;a \;is the author of five novels: \;Dreaming in Cuban\, \;The Agü\;ero Sisters\, \;Monkey Hunting\, \;A Handbook to Luck\, and \;The Lady Matador&rsquo\;s Hotel\, recently published by Scribner. Garcí\;a has edited two anthologies\, \;Cubaní\;simo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature \;and \;Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. Two works for young readers\, \;The Dog Who Loved the Moon\, and \;I Wanna Be Your Shoebox \;were published in 2008. A collection of poetry\, \;The Lesser Tragedy of Death\, was published in 2010. Her newest work\, \;Dreams of Significant Girls\, is a young adult novel set in a Swiss boarding school in the 1970s. Garcí\;a&rsquo\;s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers&rsquo\; Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. She will serve as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.

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The event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation\, The Wittliff Collections\, and the Texas State University Department of English.

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(Books available during and after the event through the University Bookstore)

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ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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