NEW WRITING SERIES PRESENTS

UCSD DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE MFA GRADUATING CLASS OF 2011: COURTNEY KILIAN, JOHN PLUECKER, and KAITLIN SOLIMINE

Three Readings

Wednesday, May 18, 2011
4:30 - 6:00 P.M.
Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space

Free and open to the public

COURTNEY KILIAN studies and writes fiction, nonfiction, experimental prose and prose poetry, and teaches both creative writing and composition writing to undergraduate and high school students. She has worked at NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Services, USDA) with Native American tribal communities following the southern California fires, lived in Lugano, Switzerland, and volunteered this past summer on organic farms in Spain for writing research made possible by the IICAS and CILAS travel grants.

JOHN PLUECKER is a writer, interpreter and translator. His work has been published by journals and magazines in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Rio Grande Review, Picnic, Third Text and Literal. He has published five books in translation from the Spanish, including essays by a leading Mexican feminist, short stories from Ciudad Juárez and a police detective novel. Read more at his website.

KAITLIN SOLIMINE is a writer, musician, and China specialist. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA from the University of Southern California, both in East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Chinese language, culture, and history. She has lived in China for a total of five years since 1996. While at Harvard, she wrote and edited three travel guides for the Let's Go: China book series (St. Martin's Press) and received a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship to study international relations at Beijing University. Kaitlin is fluent in Mandarin Chinese; while living in China, she worked as a media associate for News Corp. and Pan Media, and as a host of the Beijing TV series Modern English. In 2006, she received a Fulbright creative grant to conduct research in China for her first novel, The Soap Tree. In 2010, she attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the Donald E. Axinn Scholar in Fiction. She is interested in writing that examines the intersection between cultures as well as individual and collective histories.

The New Writing Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Literature and the Dean, Division of Arts & Humanities.

For more information and directions:
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html or contact: Franciszka Voeltz: lvoeltz@ucsd.edu or Allison Moreno: asmoreno@ucsd.edu

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