 The Living Writers Series at SDSU is one of the longest continuously running series in the nation.
Authors who have visited us in the recent years included: Edward Albee, Derek Walcott, Billy Collins, Philip Levine, Norman Rush, Alice Fulton, Gary Snyder, Carol Muske, Nahid Rachlin, Tess Gallagher, Dorianne Laux, Judy Grahn, Toi Dericotte, C.K. Williams, Rick Bass, David Mura, Clayton Eshleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Debra Magpie Earling, Wanda Coleman, Alicia Ostriker, Al Yong, Alan Gurganus, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Also, our alumni, such as award-winning authors Sherod Santos, Richard Katrovas, Susan Luzzaro, Diana Garcia, Susan Vreeland, and others have participated in these events as well. Numerous publishers, such as Ted Pelton of Starcherone Books, Mathew Zapruder of Wave Books, Kate Gale of Red Hen Press and others also participate in our annual panels on publishing.
Spring 2012
The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series is now offered as a course at SDSU (ENGL 579). Students of all experience-levels and genres can interact directly with award-winning authors, participate in creative writing and publishing workshops, and learn about literature from those who have created and shaped it!
 CORIE SKOLNICK
Monday, February 6th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Corie Skolnick is a California licensed marriage and family therapist
and a “sometimes” psychology instructor at California State University, Northridge and Moorpark College. Orfan is her first novel.
 LAUREL CORONA
Monday, February 20th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Laurel Corona, on her aesthetic: “My goal as a historical novelist is to provide you, the reader, with high-quality fiction about women and the forgotten and undervalued roles they played in their societies.”
 The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading, Featuring:
MINDY ZHANG
Monday, March 5th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*You are beaming as before, with a smile barely perceptible
and jealousy tucked into the pleats of your dress or into your dewlaps.
You do not toy with the trick of “-isms,” and yet
you are still the born killer, leaving me terminally unrecoverable.
From, “Sappho’s Lover”
 DAVID MATLIN
Celebrates the release of his new novel, A HalfMan Dreaming
Wednesday, March 14th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Praise for A HalfMan Dreaming, from Ilya Kaminsky: "In this work of luminous prose, terrifying and gorgeous, David Matlin has found a new form for a narrative, and has given that form the tale of empathy, sensuality, and great depth." For more information, visit: matlinwriter.com
Spotlight: small press publishing, featuring:
CHRIS BARON, TONY BONDS, ELIZABETH MYHR, & MARTIN WOODSIDE
Monday, March 19th, Panel Discussion at 4 pm, Reading at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
 THOMAS LUX: Monday, April 9th at 7 p.m. in Scripps Cottage
*There is something democratic
about that, grown-up; a long
and slender walking stick set against the house.
From, “Virgule”
 GARTH GREENWELL AND ANUSHKA RAVISHANKAR
Monday, April 16th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Garth Greenwell, on teaching: “the very process of education
is the process by which we learn to seek the world’s sweetnesses—
sweetest among them Eros—which are at once so intoxicating and
so quickly ground out.”
*Anushka Ravishankar, on her aesthetic: "I don't write to teach or moralize anything. You could end up finding messages but consciously I have never tried to do that."
 ERIC GOODMAN
Monday, April 23rd at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Eric Goodman is a novelist, rock lyricist, travel writer, journalist,
and tv writer. By day, Eric is a Professor of English and directs the
creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Our events are free and open to the public. For more information and to join our mailing list, please contact Meagan Marshall at marshall_Meagan@yahoo.com or “friend” us on Facebook.
Fall 2011
For the first time in over thirty years, the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series will be offered as a course at SDSU (ENGL 579). Students will interact directly with award-winning authors, participate in creative writing and publishing workshops, and learn about literature from those who have created and shaped it! Writers of all experience-levels and genres are welcomed and encouraged.
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 Fred Moramarco and Sarah Maclay: Monday, September 19th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
So I begin again each spring on my knees, planting the cosmos
once more as if it had never before been done by anyone
From “Planting the Cosmos” (Fred Moramarco)
Fred Moramarco is the author of seven books. He is Professor Emeritus at SDSU in Literature and Creative Writing. Sarah Maclay is the author of three collections of poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University.
 Daniel Shapiro: Monday, October 3rd at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
Besides fog
in the ship’s hold there are boxes
boxes like factories filled with clay.
Tomás Harris, From "Diary of Terror Sealed in a Bottle"
Daniel Shapiro is a poet and translator. He is Director of Literature and Editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas at the Americas Society in New York.
 Ishion Hutchinson: Monday, October 10th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
I cling to a still revolving truth:
the world is a golden calyx,
but home is a burst lemon
From, "Montale's Lemons"
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica and received his MFA in Poetry from New York University. Far District is his first full-length collection.
 The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading presents, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim: Monday, October 24th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
The problem that confused me for years, until the years formed their own ironic
answer, was what to do with my life as a woman: not simply what kind of work
I wanted, but how to grow up as a woman.
From Among the White Moon Faces
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is the author of five books of poems; three books of short stories, and two books of criticism. She is a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of California, at Santa Barbara.
 Richard Burgin: Monday, November 7th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
It was like time was the true extra terrestrial that people feared. Or to put it
another way, once you realized the true nature of time, you became as alien to
most of humanity, who blocked it out, as the so-called "aliens" themselves.
From “Vivian and Sid in Maui”
Richard Burgin is a fiction writer, editor, composer, critic and teacher. He is the author of fifteen books.
 Poetry International Presents, Michael Collier: Thursday, Nov 10th at 7pm, Love Library Rm 430
Michael Collier is the author of five books of poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. He is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the oldest literary conference in the United States, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.
 Poetry International Presents, Kate Bernheimer: Monday, Nov. 14, 2pm-3.15pm Creative Writing Workshop, Student Services West 2512 and 7pm: Fiction Reading in Love Library, room 430
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 3.30pm-4.30pm: Talk on Fairytales at the Love Library, room LL 430
Kate Bernheimer has published novels, stories, children's books, and essays on fairy tales, and has edited three influential fairy-tale anthologies. In 2005, she founded, and currently remains editor of, Fairy Tale Review, the leading literary journal dedicated to fairy tales as a contemporary art form.
 Tayari Jones: Monday, December 5th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
She is a magician who can make the whole world feel like a dizzy illusion.
The truth is a coin she pulls from behind your ear.
From Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels. She has been called "A Writer to Watch," by Essence Magazine.
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