Apr
28
12:00am
Charting New Horizons: Storytelling Through Multiple Genres
By UCR Tomás Rivera Conference
Whether it's fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or screenwriting, our guests have used multiple genres to tell their stories. This discussion will examine how writers navigate different narrative terrains.
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María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author. Her novel, L.A. Weather (Flatiron Books,) is a Reese’s Book Club pick, one of the NYT Best Books, 2021. Her first novel, Esperanza’s Box of Saints (Simon & Schuster,) was number one in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List and González & Daughter Trucking Co. (Random House,) is her second novel. She teaches Creative Writing at UCLA Extension since 1994.
The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts. She co-edits UC Press's acclaimed California cultural journal, Boom California, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and has received acclaim from the New York Times and a started Kirkus review. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte covers over 300 years of her hometown's history, and was published by Rutgers University Press. It was named one of the 10 best books about California by the LA Times. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, Electric Lit, The Millions, LitHub, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, KCET and the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. Most recently she published an essay on Joan Didion and motherhood in Harper's Bazaar. She is a senior writer at Tropics of Meta. Carribean lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County with her husband and their two daughters.
Héctor Tobar is the Los Angeles-born author of five books, including the novels The Tattooed Soldier and The Last Great Road Bum. His nonfiction Deep Down Dark was a New York Times bestseller and his books have been translated into 15 languages. His novel The Barbarian Nurseries won the California Book Award, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories. He earned his MFA from UC Irvine.
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María Amparo Escandón, © Alejandro Escandón; Carribean Fragoza, © Aura C. Guzman-Fragoza; Héctor Tobar, © Opal Agency, Paris
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