Author Carla Crujido
SFCC News:
SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College’s (SFCC) Library and Creative Writing program present the Fall 2024 Writing Generation Series beginning Sept. 18. Each author will read at an introductory session.
The following week the author will engage the participants in a writing exercise/creative session.
Attendees can go to any of the sessions by registering just once at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2024.
The sessions begin at 6 p.m. Wednesdays and will feature these authors:
- Carla Crujido Sept. 18 reading;
- Sept. 25 creative session;
- Kasia Merrill Oct. 23 reading and Oct. 30 creative session; and
- Jake Skeets (Nov. 13 reading and Nov. 20 creative session.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link via email the morning of each event. Valerie Nye, SFCC Library Director and associate professor Austin Eichelberger from the Creative Writing program are coordinating the series, which was launched last spring. The sessions are free and open to the public.
“We were thrilled by the positive response the series received last spring,” Nye said. “Participants were emotionally moved by the authors’ readings and inspired by the creative writing sessions. The online format allowed people to join from throughout the region, as well as other parts of the country.”
Kasia Merrill
Eichelberger added, “We’re excited to offer a new line-up of diverse voices. The talented writers certainly will spur attendees to explore their own voices in writing.”
The following authors will participate:
Carla Crujido – September 18 reading; September 25 creative session
Bio: Carla Crujido is the author of the short story collection, “The Strange Beautiful” (Chin Music Press). Her work has appeared in Moss, Bellingham Review, Crazyhorse, Yellow Medicine Review, Ricepaper Magazine, and elsewhere. Carla is the nonfiction editor at River Styx Magazine and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Kasia Merrill – October 23 reading; October 30 creative session
Bio: Kasia Merrill is a fiction writer based in Maryland. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has appeared in Fiction International, Quarter After Eight, Breadcrumbs Mag, The Ekphrasis Review, Salamander Magazine, and The Appalachian Review, and her stories have been finalists for the GRITLit, Cutbank, New Millenium Writings, and Salamander Magazine fiction competitions. She has received support from the Peter Bullough Foundation, Disquiet International, and the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, for which she was a Peter Taylor fellow. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets – November 13 reading; November 20 creative session
Bio: Jake Skeets (he/him) is the author of “Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers”, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His work has appeared widely in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
For additional information, please contact SFCC Library Director Valerie Nye via email at valerie.nye@sfcc.edu or by calling 505.428.1506. For more information about SFCC’s Creative Writing program visit sfcc.edu/programs/creative-writing/.
