The Betsy Writer's Room and FIU Writers on the Bay Series welcome Writer in Residence, Rigoberto González.
Presented by The Betsy Writer's Room as part of an ongoing Breakfast Arts Salon Series, hosting conversations about things that matter with today's writers, poets, and thought leaders.
A light breakfast is served; free and open to hotel guests and community, but your RSVP is requested as seats are limited.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rigoberto González is the author four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His ten books of prose include two bilingual children’s books, the three young adult novels in the Mariposa Club series, the novel Crossing Vines, the story collection Men Without Bliss, and three books of nonfiction, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Center Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award, he is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine and is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
In 2015, he received The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. As of 2016, he serves as critic-at-large with the L.A. Times and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
FIU WRITERS ON THE BAY READING, 10/20/16
Be sure to RSVP for the reading event at FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, as Barnes & Noble Bookstore and the FIU Creative Writing MFA host poet, Rigoberto Gonzalez for a reading event. Details online HERE.
