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Fiction Writers Paul Pedroza and Savannah Johnston to Read at NMSU

  Two acclaimed writers are appearing at New Mexico State University.  Paul Pedroza and Savannah Johnston are both fiction writers. They will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 8th, on the NMSU campus, in the Health and Social Services Building auditorium, Rm. 101.

 

Pedroza was born and raised in El, Paso Texas. He received his BA in Creative Writing and Mass Communication from the University of Texas at El Paso and his MFA in fiction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work has appeared in Rattle, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Palabra, and elsewhere as well as in several anthologies. He currently teaches writing at NMSU.

 

In reviewing Pedroza’s recently published first collection of stories, Alex Shakar writes, “[his] prismatic, visionary, and fiercely loving tales of El Paso and its residents swerve from laughter to heartache from surreality to the punch of the real. This is a deft debut with a bold range of approaches and an exultant, beating heart.”

 

Johnston is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She received her BA from Columbia University and will receive her MFA in fiction from NMSU in May. She is currently managing editor of Puerto del Sol. Her work has appeared in Portland Review, Moon City Review, and is forthcoming on Gulf Coast Online.    

 

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the reading. The reading is presented by La Sociedad para las Artes and the NMSU English Department.