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Humanities Author Series - Alex Espinoza

The School of Humanities Author Series presents

Alex Espinoza

Thursday, April 11,
p.m.
Humanities Gateway

Alex Espinoza's first novel, Still Water Saints (), was named a Barnes and Nobel Discover Great New Writers Selection and was released simultaneously in Spanish, under the title Los santos de Agua Mansa, California. Espinoza’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies and journals, including Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire, Latinos in Lotusland, Huizache, Silent Voices and The Southern California Review. His essays have been published on www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar, in the New York Times Magazine, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, and as part of the Chicano Chapbook Series. He has reviewed books for the Los Angeles Times and the American Book Review. He was the Margaret Bridgeman Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is an active participant in the Macondo Workshop and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Currently, he is an associate professor of English at CSU-Fresno where he teaches literature and creative writing. He graduated in with an MFA from UC Irvine’s Programs in Writing.

Please join us to hear Alex Espinoza read from his new book, The Five Acts of Diego León, a novel about a gifted young man who leaves Mexico for Hollywood in the late s, determined to pursue his dreams-no matter the cost.

Event is free and open to the public.

For further information, please email humanities@www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar