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February 16, 2022(1 event)
6:00 pm: On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Isabel Quintero and Casandra Lopez6:00 pm: On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Isabel Quintero and Casandra Lopez – Riverside Public Library’s Humanity Series is back! Join Inlandia Institute in partnership with Riverside Public Library for a four-part spin around the Inland Empire with local writers Larry Burns, Nikia Chaney, Rebecca K. O’Connor, Teresa Rhyne, Susan Straight, Douglas McCulloh, Isabel Quintero, and Casandra Lopez. This series is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/HumanitiesHour202 “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” ― Joan Didion The scheduled speakers will offer insights, observations, and tools for writing about the location we call home – Inland Southern California. January 5: Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney January 19: Rebecca K. O’Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne February 2: Susan Straight and Douglas McCulloh February 16: Isabel Quintero and Casandra Lopez Isabel Quintero is an award-winning writer and the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She lives and writes in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces (Cinco Puntos Press) her first YA novel, was the recipient of multiple awards. She is the author of the chapter books, Ugly Cat and Pablo and Ugly Cat and Pablo and the Missing Brother (Scholastic, Inc.). She earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in literature and he M.A. in English Composition from California State University, San Bernardino. Casandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) writer who has received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf and Jackstraw. She’s been selected for residencies with the School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her chapbook, Where Bullet Breaks was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center and her poetry collection, Brother Bullet, is forthcoming from University of Arizona. She’s a founding editor of As/Us: A Space For Women Of The World and teaches at Northwest Indian College. |
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