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Southwest Festival of the Written Word:Tim Z. Hernandez
Saturday, September 30, 2017, 03:00pm - 04:00pm |
"Narrative Non-Fiction: Reading and Discussion from his new Book, 'All They Will Call You'"
Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Public Radio International, and National Public Radio.
Named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America, he was a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie's song of the same name. The result of this work is the basis for his newly released book, All They Will Call You (Univesrity of Arizona Press).
Hernandez holds a B.A. from Naropa University and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas El Paso's Bilingual M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. For more, visit timzhernandez.com.
Location 315 Texas Street
Silver City NM 88061
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