Center Voices presents Working Authors

Event Date

Wednesday, March 24 2010 : 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Location

The Center

Description

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Reception 6PM, Program 6:30PM
Center Voices presents Working Authors Ron Drummond, Consuelo Arias, Barbara Bryce Morris and Christopher Murray

The Center is proud to have Working Authors Ron Drummond, Consuelo Arias, Barbara Bryce Morris and Christopher Murray

Ron Drummond

Ron Drummond’s Why I Kick at Night was a Portlandia Press Chapbook Competition winner. He has received writing fellowships from Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center, and was one of the founding editors of Barrow Street. His work is represented in the Penguin textbook Literature as Meaning, the anthologies Poetry Nation, Poetry After 9/11, This New Breed, Latin Lovers and Saints of Hysteria, as well as in many literary journals. His translations, in collaboration with Guillermo Castro, have appeared in U.S. Latino Review, Terra Incognita and Guernica. He is a member of the Cooperativa Artística Macondo, and a supporter of Bellevue Pediatric literacy program Reach Out And Read.

Consuelo Arias
Consuelo Arias is currently editing an anthology of essays on the Puerto Rican poet Manuel Ramos Otero’s life in New York City and also working on a memoir. She has published an (English to Spanish) translation of Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories (edited by Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow. She also has completed the (Spanish to English) translation of Dionisio Cañas’ El gran criminal. Arias has taught at Skidmore, Sarah Lawrence and various CUNY colleges. Currently she is a Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Nassau Community College.

Barbara Bryce Morris

Barbara Bryce Morris is the author of the unpublished novel Unleashed, a chapter of which was published in Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories (University of Wisconsin 2003). She is the co-editor of Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, Greenwood, 1995). She is one of the founders of a writing program at Parsons New School for Design for MFA students in design and technology and the recipient of a Fulbright Program fellowship for her research in Spanish cinema. She has taught at Rutgers University, UCLA and Fordham University.

Christopher Murray's

Christopher Murray's poems have appeared in Bloom, Art & Understanding, the award-winning collection from Soft Skull Press, Bend, Don't Shatter, and on "The Writer's Almanac" on NPR as read by Garrison Keillor. His writing has also been seen in Gay City News, The New York Blade, The Advocate and My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. A psychotherapist in private practice, he blogs at www.christophermurray.org