Interior Mythologies: Literary Readings & Discussion

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Date/Time:Monday, 31 Mar 2014 at 8:00 pm
Location:Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
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Literary Readings and discussion with K. L. Cook, author of three books of fiction and teaches in Iowa State's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment. Poet Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and author of the poetry collection "When My Brother Was an Aztec." Part of the Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination Series

K. L. Cook is the author of three books of fiction. His most recent book, Love Songs for the Quarantined, won the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. His novel, The Girl from Charnelle, won The Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and his first book, Last Call, won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. He is an associate professor of English at Iowa State and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment.

Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec. She is a recipient of the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. She played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. Diaz lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works with the last speakers of Mojave and directs a language revitalization program.