MFA Programs in Writing present readings by UCI authors
Alan Grostephan and Ismet Prcic
Hosted by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative
Light refreshments and book sale at the event. All are welcome to join!
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
135 Humanities Instructional Bldg (HIB)
@5:30pm
Alan Grostephan is the author of The Banana Wars and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from UC Irvine and is a professor at Agnes Scott College. He lived for years in Colombia where he travels extensively and is currently writing about work, dispossession, and land restitution in Latin America.
Ismet Prcic (ISS-met PER-sick) was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977 and immigrated to America in 1996. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was the recipient of a 2010 NEA Award for fiction. He is also a 2011 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellow. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife.