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La Tertulia de la Palabra
PRESENTSSTEVE GUTIERREZ and VIOLA CANALES
Tuesday,March 3, 2015
6:00to8:00p.m.
MulticulturalCommunityCenter
Universityof California Campus
Hearst Field Annex (Click for map)
Stephen D. Gutierrez, a professor of English at California State University East Bay, was born and raised in Los Angeles. His latest book, The Mexican Man in His Backyard, completes his trilogy, My Three-Volume BOXED Set, composed of autobiographical and varied short stories and personal essays. Volumes I and II, Elements and Live from Fresno y Los, won respectively the Nilon Award from Fiction Collective II and an American Book Award. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous print and online outlets and his plays have been performed in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Buffalo, New York. “Game Day” was the winner of the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition in the One-Act Category. His writings recreate the Mexican American culture of Fresno and the working-class East LA of his youth in the 1970’s, and they offer memories both poignant and sharp, painful and funny.
Viola Canalesserved as a field organizer for the United Farm Workers, as an officer in the U.S. Army, and after graduating from Harvard Law School, as attorney for law firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she then headed up the westernmost region of the Small Business Administration under the Clinton Administration.
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