Thursday, March 04, 2010

Achy Obejas at UTSA

UTSA 2009-2010 Creative Writing Reading Series presents:

Achy Obejas
Friday, March 5
7:30 p.m.
UTSA 1604 Campus -- University Room
Business Building (2.06.04)

Achy Obejas' latest novel, Ruins, was published by Akashic Books in March 2009. Her other books include Havana Noir, This is What Happened in Our other Life, Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?

Her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized and published in literary magazines. She is the translator (into Spanish) of Junot Diaz's Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and (into English) of the the upcoming anthology, Mexico City Noir.

Obejas is currently the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago.

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