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DEPARTMENT OF<br />

ENGLISH<br />

CREATIVE WRITING<br />

Creative Writing involves creative writing, literary/cultural studies, new media, and<br />

professional writing. Developing skills in analysis, creativity, research, and communication,<br />

graduates have gone on to become attorneys, corporate communication specialists,<br />

human resource directors, filmmakers, educators, and writers and editors in Silicon Valley.<br />

TOBIAS WOLFF:<br />

Fiction Reading<br />

Wednesday, October 19, 2016<br />

5p.m.<br />

St. Clare Room | FREE Admission<br />

Tobias Wolff is a renowned short story writer,<br />

memoirist, and novelist. He is the recipient<br />

of many awards, and his stories have been<br />

widely anthologized. In 2015 Wolff received a<br />

National Medal of Arts from President Barack<br />

Obama.<br />

REYNA GRANDE:<br />

Non-Fiction/Fiction Reading<br />

Wednesday, February 22, 2017<br />

5:30p.m.<br />

St. Clare Room | FREE Admission<br />

Reyna Grande is an award-winning novelist<br />

and memoirist. She has received an<br />

American Book Award, the El Premio Aztlán<br />

Literary Award, and the International Latino<br />

Book Award. In her latest book, The Distance<br />

Between Us, (Atria, 2012) Reyna writes about<br />

her life before and after illegally immigrating<br />

from Mexico to the United States.<br />

RAINA J. LEÓN:<br />

Poetry Reading<br />

Thursday, April 20, 2017<br />

5p.m.<br />

St. Clare Room | FREE Admission<br />

Raina J. León is an award-winning writer of<br />

poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She is a Cave<br />

Canem graduate fellow (2006), Canto Mundo<br />

fellow, and member of the Carolina African<br />

American Writers Collective. Her third book,<br />

sombra : (dis)locate, will be published in<br />

2016.<br />

14 scu • presents

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