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Cuban author and activist to read from work
October 05, 2007
The Visiting Writer Series continues with author Achy Obejas on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Obejas will answer questions about her life as a writer at the Writer’s Story beginning at 5 p.m. in the Garfield Book Company at PLU. She will read from her work at 8 p.m. in room 100 of Ingram Hall.
Internationally acclaimed for her activism and writing, Obejas is the author of “Days of Awe, Memory Mambo, and We Came all the Way from Cuba to Dress Like This?” The book depicts Alejandra San Jose, born in Havana on the day Fidel Castro seizes power. Her family flees to North America, but eventually San Jose is drawn back to her native country and must come to terms with her family’s past.
Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States with her family six years after the Cuban revolution. She spent 10 years writing for the Chicago Tribune, covering Pope John Paul II’s historic 1998 visit to Cuba, the arrival of Al-Queda prisoners in Guantanamo, the Versace murder and the AIDS epidemic.
Her awards are numerous and include a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship in poetry and the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is currently the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago. Her collection of poems, “This is What Happened in Our Other Life,” and an edited collection of stories, “Havana Noir,” are due to be published this fall.
The fall series concludes on Thursday, Nov. 29 with a reading by poet Michael Dumanis.
Sponsored by the English department, the series is also supported by contributions from the Office of the Provost, the Wild Hope Foundation, the Garfield Book Company at PLU, the Rainier Writing Workshop, Student Involvement and Leadership, Residential Life and ASPLU. Obeja’s visit is also co-sponsored by the languages and literatures department.
For more information, contact the English department at ext. 7321.
Internationally acclaimed for her activism and writing, Obejas is the author of “Days of Awe, Memory Mambo, and We Came all the Way from Cuba to Dress Like This?” The book depicts Alejandra San Jose, born in Havana on the day Fidel Castro seizes power. Her family flees to North America, but eventually San Jose is drawn back to her native country and must come to terms with her family’s past.
Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States with her family six years after the Cuban revolution. She spent 10 years writing for the Chicago Tribune, covering Pope John Paul II’s historic 1998 visit to Cuba, the arrival of Al-Queda prisoners in Guantanamo, the Versace murder and the AIDS epidemic.
Her awards are numerous and include a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship in poetry and the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is currently the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago. Her collection of poems, “This is What Happened in Our Other Life,” and an edited collection of stories, “Havana Noir,” are due to be published this fall.
The fall series concludes on Thursday, Nov. 29 with a reading by poet Michael Dumanis.
Sponsored by the English department, the series is also supported by contributions from the Office of the Provost, the Wild Hope Foundation, the Garfield Book Company at PLU, the Rainier Writing Workshop, Student Involvement and Leadership, Residential Life and ASPLU. Obeja’s visit is also co-sponsored by the languages and literatures department.
For more information, contact the English department at ext. 7321.