Kristin Naca will be at MSU-Moorhead on Thursday, April 15, 2010.  At 4:30 p.m. she will present a talk on the writer’s craft and at 8:00 p.m. a reading from her work.  Both events are held in King Hall Auditorium 110.  Both events are open to the public.

Bird Eating Bird (Harper Perennial, 2009) is Kristin Naca’s first collection of poems.  It is also the winner of the 2008 prestigious National Poetry Series mtvU prize, chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa.  Naca holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MFA from the University of Pittsburg, and a PhD in English from  the University of Nebraska.  Playful and serious all at once, Naca’s poetry explores the richness of her Puertao Rican and Filipina cultural and linguistic heritage.  She is a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow at Macalester College where she teaches Asian American and Latino poetry and creative writing.  She lives in Minneapolis.

For more information on Kristin Naca, go to <http://www.kristinnaca.com>.  To watch Kristin’s interview with Yousek Komunyakaa on mtvU, go to <http://www.mtvu.com/shows/my-shot-with/yusef-komunyakaa/>.

Information for this blog entry was provided by Dr. Thom Tammaro, but it was posted by Linda Lein, a LRWN Board Member.