Speakeasy Series Presents: Author Thomas Mira Y Lopez
Venue: Newman Library (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Thomas Mira Y Lopez, Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
The Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presents Author Thomas Mira Y Lopez as part of their Speakeasy Series on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the Newman Library's Multipurpose Room on the campus of Virginia Tech.
Prose writer Thomas Mira Y Lopez will be reading from his latest book "The Book Of Resting Places" which was released by Counterpoint Press in November. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the author.
Thomas Mira Y Lopez is the author of the book "The Book of Resting Places" and his work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The Normal School among others. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and has received grants or scholarships from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Colgate University's Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship.
He is an editor of Territory, a literary project about maps and other strange objects, and an assistant fiction editor at DIAGRAM. Originally from New York, Mira y Lopez lives and teaches in North Carolina, where he is the 2017-2018 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Link: http://thomasmiraylopez.com/
Books will be available for purchase on location through the VT Bookstore.
The reading is free and open to the public.
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