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May 10, 2007

Richard Rodriguez to speak at UNM’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference  

Richard Rodriguez, one of America’s most important essayists and master of the personal essay, will deliver the keynote address at the 2007 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference on Sunday, July 8 at 8 p.m.

Rodriguez has authored three books, is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, pens a Sunday Opinion section for the Los Angeles Times and appears as an essayist on PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” His televised essays on “American Life” were honored in 1997 with a George Peabody Award. The keynote is one of several events the conference offers to the public free of charge.

Founded by Sharon Oard Warner, University of New Mexico creative writing program director, the conference presents intensive weekend and weeklong workshops on writing and publishing July 7-13. Tuition rates vary. Many workshops are already closed, and those remaining are filling up fast.

Registered participants can also access a newly introduced conference blog, which gives participants and faculty a chance to meet virtually before the conference, post work and live-journal the conference experience.

For more information visit http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf or email taosconf@unm.edu.

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