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Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from alumni and friends, the Department of English, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley. All readings are free and open to the public.
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Andrea Ross, Nonfiction
Thursday, October 12 | 6:30 p.m. | PAC 134
Andrea Ross's book, Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness, about her years working in the backcountry while searching for her biological family, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2021. During the 1980s and 90s, Andrea worked throughout the American West as a wilderness guide, a National Park Service Ranger, and a backcountry Search and Rescue leader. The recipient of several California Arts Council grants and a fellowship at the Mesa Refuge, her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Terrain, The Conversation, Bay Nature, Mountain Gazette, and many other outlets. She is on the faculty of the University Writing Program at UC Davis.
Keenan Norris, Fiction/Nonfiction
Thursday, November 9 | 6:30 p.m. | ARTS 150 Recital Hall
Keenan Norris’s latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane, the winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award. His essays have garnered a 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award and 2021 Folio: Eddie Award. His editorials and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, Alta, and LitHub. Most recently, he's also authored the biblio-memoir Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings. Keenan is an Associate Professor and coordinator of the Steinbeck Fellows Program at San Jose State University.
Graduate Student Reading | Poetry, Fiction, and NonFiction
Tuesday, December 5th | 6:30 p.m. | Arts 150 Recital Hall
Zach Bennett
Jen Carter
Krystle Holzhauer
Brooke Kenney
Morgan Konefal
Free & open to the public. Masks are welcome.
The Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley.
For more information about this reading, contact Rob Davidson, Professor of English, rgdavidson@csuchico.edu.
Writer’s Voice online: https://www.csuchico.edu/engl/news-events/writers-voice.shtml
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WritersVoiceCSUChico/
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