UTSA hosts Sept. 24 talk by award-winning poet and author Michael Nava
(Sept. 22, 2014) -- UTSA will host "Michael Nava: An Afternoon with an Award-winning Poet and Author" from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 24 in the University Center Pecan Room (2.01.26) on the Main Campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Nava is a third-generation Californian of Mexican decent and the grandson of immigrants. Born in Sacramento, he was the first person in his family to attend college, ultimately receiving his law degree from Stanford University.
He has received the 1981 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, six Lambda Literary Awards and the 2000 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Literature.
Nava's work includes two award-winning Henry Rios mysteries, "The Little Death" and "Rag and Bone," and the novel "The City of Palaces."
Sponsors for the event are the UTSA Department of English, Women's Studies Institute, Student Center for Community Engagement and Inclusion, Consortium for Social Transformation, Honors College and John Philip Santos, Distinguished Scholar of Mestizo Studies.
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