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Poets & Writers Series: Rebecca Curtis, Fiction Writer

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    Rebecca Curtis
    Fiction Writer
    A Reading & Conversation with Don Lee

    Rebecca Curtis is the author of the story collection Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, a New York Times Notable Book, and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Best First Fiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Huffington Post, McSweeney’s, n+1, and elsewhere. Her stories have been performed by New York’s Symphony Space and Chicago’s Stories on Stage. She received a BA from Pomona College, an MA in English from New York University, and an MFA from Syracuse University.
     

    The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Richard Moyer Fund and the Department of English. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public. 

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    Created By: College of Liberal Arts, English, Creative Writing
    Sponsors: Temple University MFA in Creative Writing // with the assistance of the Richard Moyer Fund and the Department of English
    Open To: Public
    Intended Audience: Open to all
    Type: Other // Performance
    Tags: Creative Writing // Fiction // Readings

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