April 17, 2002
Contact: Steve Horowitz (509-963-2512/fax 509-963-1380/e-mail: horowitz@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - “An Evening of Readings by Peace Corps Writers” will take place at Central Washington University Friday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in Grupe Center.
The free, public presentation, sponsored by the CWU office of international studies and programs, will feature award-winning Washington state Peace Corps writers Peter Chilson, non-fiction, and Susan Rich, poetry, both of whom served in Africa.
Chilson, now a creative writing instructor at Washington State University, is the author of “Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa,” his first book, which chronicled his overseas work. It won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Audubon, The North Dakota Quarterly, The American Scholar, Ascent and The Clackamas Literary Review.
Rich is the author of “The Cartographer’s Tongue /Poems of the World,” winner of the 2001 PEN West/Poetry award and the 2001 Peace Corps Readers and Writers award. She has had more than 50 poems published or forthcoming in journals and anthologies including the Christian Science Monitor, DoubleTake, Harvard Magazine, Massachusetts Review, and Poet Lore.
She is on the master’s faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles and at Highline Community College, Kent.
The event is being organized and hosted by Steve Horowitz, director of CWU’s university English as a second language (UESL) program and former Peace Corps volunteer. For more information, or for persons of disability to arrange for reasonable accommodation, call (509) 963-1375, or (for the hearing impaired) TDD (509) 963-3323.
