Poets & Writers - Readings featuring published authors

This Friday, the English department's current visiting writers, Mark Sundeen and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, will be giving a reading at 7 pm in SUB Fiesta conference rooms (up on the third floor). 

Mark Sundeen is the author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro.  His nonfiction features and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, The Believer, McSweeney's, National Geographic Adventure, and Men's Journal. He also worked for 11 years as a river guide, and was a writer for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez began her professional writing career at 24 as one of the youngest staff writers ever hired at The Boston Globe. Her lyrical, witty prose soon landed her a Pulitzer nomination and recognition as the best newspaper essayist in the nation by the SUNMAG organization. She is now the author of several novels, including the national best-seller The Dirty Girls Social Club (2001). Her latest book is her first young-adult novel, Haters (Little, Brown, 2006). Her honors include being named one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America by Time magazine and Woman of the Year by Latina Magazine, and Hispanic Business Magazine has twice named her among the 100 most influential Hispanics in the nation.