Puerto Rican Author Judith Ortiz Cofer
Will Read
At Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on October 10
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta and Peg Byron
September 23, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - Distinguished poet and author
Judtih Ortiz Cofer, a native of Puerto Rico, will talk about biculturalism
and the creative process – including the perception among
some that minority artists create sociological text rather than
art – at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.
Part of the English Department's multicultural "Voices
of the Rainbow" series, the lecture will take place on Thursday,
October 10, at noon in the Health Sciences Building, Room 119,
and is free and open to the public.
"The Year of Our Revolution," a collection of new
and selected poetry and prose, and "Sleeping with One Eye
Open" are Cofer's latest works. Her earlier writings include
"The Latin Deli," an essay, short fiction and poetry
collection, which received the Anisfield Wolf Award; "An
Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio," named by the American
Library Association as the Best Book of the Year, 1995-96; and
"Silent Dancing," awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Special
Citation in non-fiction.
Cofer's works have appeared in Glamour, Georgia Review, Prairie
Schooner, Kenyon Review and more, and she has been anthologized
in "The Best American Essays," "The Norton Book
of Women's Lives," and the "O. Henry Prize Stories."
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the Florida
and Georgia Councils for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded her a 1999 residency
at the Bellagio, Italy Conference Center. Recently, she was visiting
faculty at Vanderbilt University. She is a Franklin Professor
at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Georgia, where she teaches English and creative writing.
The "Voices of the Rainbow" series is funded by the
office of Provost Gale Stevens Haynes. For more information, call
(718) 488-1109.
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