When: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall, UNL City
Campus
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 17, 2002--Writer Pat Alderete will read from her fiction at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Alderete writes about the beauty and brutality of varrio (ed: varrio is cq) life, rendering the complex inner worlds and strict social hierarchies of a community too seldom observed in literature.
Her short stories have been published in Joteria and PEN Center Journal, and have been anthologized in "Hers 2" and "Hers 3," and in "Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Latino Arts Anthology 1988-2000."
Alderete's one-act play, "Ghost and the Spirit," was produced as a staged reading in 1997, and her one-woman performance, "Tina Gets Married," was produced in 1999. Her essay, "Riots," appears in the 2002 anthology, "Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992." She is at work on a book of short fiction about Chicano life in East Los Angeles.
In 2000, Alderete was a guest artist at UNL, where she lectured and read her work. She has studied writing with Mona Simpson, Luis J. Rodriguez, Helena Maria Viramontes and Terry Wolverton. She was part of the first group of writers to participate in the PEN Center USA West Emerging Voices Program in 1996.
The reading is sponsored at UNL by the Institute for Ethnic Studies; the Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns; Women's Studies; Convocations; and the English Department and Creative Writing Program. A reception will follow, and books will be available for sale.
Contact: Amelia Montes, Asst. Professor, English, (402)
472-8291 (amontes2@unl.edu)
For questions regarding these releases, contact:
tsimons1@unl.edu
(402) 472-8514, Fax: (402) 472-7825