Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing Alumni Reading - September 29, 2016

September 29, 2016

The Department of English/Cornell University Creative Writing Program presents The Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing Alumni Reading, as part of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series, featuring:

H.G. Carrillo ‘07, Fiction Writer
H.G. Carrillo is the author of Loosing My Espanish, a novel (2005). His short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, Ninth Letter, Slice and other journals and publications. Carrillo sits on the executive board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and lives in the Washington, DC area, where he is currently at work on a novel.

Sally Wen Mao ‘12, Poet
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Mad Honey Symposium. She is the recipient of a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and the National University of Singapore. Her work is published in Poetry, A Public Space, Tin House, and Best American Poetry 2013, among others. She is a 2016-2017 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Adam O’Fallon Price ‘14, Fiction Writer
Adam O’Fallon Price is the author of The Grand Tour, a novel. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Epoch, The Iowa Review, Narrative Magazine, Glimmer Train, The Antioch Review, and elsewhere. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Cornell University, where he earned an MFA in 2014.

Emily Rosko ‘03, Poet
Emily Rosko is the author of Prop Rockery (2012) and Raw Goods Inventory (2006). She is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and poetry editor for Crazyhorse. She teaches at the College of Charleston.

[d-logan]

Ah HG Carillo aka Herman Carroll, the Rachael Dolezal of the Afro-Latino world.

[d.jswaheely]

Even on his deathbed, H.G. never broke character. Bravo ... Bravo.

[EMVelez]

I’m sure the guy who introduced him is dying of embarrassment now.

[EMVelez]

This man was married. Did his husband never meet his real family from Detroit? None of this makes any sense. Imagine the delusion narcissism and sense of entitlement a person would have to possess to do such a thing.

[teddyjackson]

The hazards of tokenism and nonsensical diversity as the prime virtue. What a joke the opening remarks are in retrospect. Cosmic comedy cannot be denied.

[TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Odd how no one who knows Cuban Spanish came across his Spanish lol, it's fine for an American but you could tell it's not his first language by accent.