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About the Authors

BLOG AUTHORS LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER….. details will be forthcoming

RICK RAAB-FABER is an old guy. A Canadian citizen, he has lived in NM since 1973. VITAL STATISTICS: Married, with kids ranging from 6ish to 21ish. BA from UNM ‘09 (at the tender age 50.) Part of the 2009 Cohort of CF MFA d/b/a WTF SNAFU.

HT: 5′7″. WT: 220. Position: Shortstop. Bats: Right. Throws: Up. Benches: 220 (oz..) Sleeps: Six comfortably. Leads NASCAR: in Rushing and Passing. Former: U.S Ambassador to Arkansas. Drinks: like a chimney. Smokes: Like a fish.
(Editor’s Note: did we mention that Rick is in the Fiction program)

Rick likes to trace his literary lineage via Cheever, Updike, Carver. Some of the additions to my pantheon over the past year have been Prouxl, Munro, Wallace, DeLillo, and Denis Johnson (joining Robbins, Irving, McGuane, Heller, Ford, Bausch, Houston, Hemingway and the aforementioned Cheever, Updike and Carver.)

JENNIFER SIMPSON just read Rick’s bio and decided she should try and write something more interesting herself. Here goes.

Jennifer is a bit of a geek, blogging for fun (are we having fun yet?) and for work. Her first publication was the fascinating and probably mostly accurate tale, “How To Make Poi” published by Mrs. Tanaka’s 2nd Grade class at Alvah A. Scott Elementary School in Aiea, Hawaii. Jennifer then went on to even more success with such works as “Super Chicken to the Rescue,” which detailed the adventures of, you guessed it, Super Chicken. Though admittedly a take off of a then-popular children’s cartoon, Jennifer’s chicken would rescue children from being spanked by their parents. Oh wait…. She plagiarized that!

She now sticks to what she calls, “very creative mostly non-fiction.”

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- Rubbing Elbows
  –posted by Jennifer One of the perks of being in an MFA program is meeting authors. Sometimes its just the opportunity to hear him/her read work and participate in a Question and Answer, sometimes there is a workshop involved, and sometimes it is some serious elbow rubbing. Last night we hosted Margaret Atwood and her partner Graeme [...]
- Margaret Atwood at UNM
  Margaret Atwood will be reading from her new book, The Year of the Flood 7 pm on Monday, November 16 at Woodward Hall on UNM’s main campus Atwood is the author of many novels, notably The Handmaid’s Tale, and Oryx and Crake – the novel to which The Year of the Flood is written as a prequel. She will be accompanied by her [...]
- October 23 Works in Progress
  –posted by Jennifer On Friday October 23, 2009 the 2nd of this semester’s WORKS IN PROGRESS readings, sponsored by the Creative Writing Department at UNM will be held. Readers include: Poet Erika Sanchez, who says, “Sometimes images seem to haunt me until I am compelled to write a poem around them; other times I do everything I can to “brea […]
- Church with Dana Levin
  In case you missed Dana Levin at the last Works in Progress, or like me you can’t get enough of her… come to Church of Beethoven this SUNDAY or WEDNESDAY: Sunday, Oct. 11, 10:30am Weds., Oct. 14, 6pm 1715 5th St NW Albuquerque, NM 87102 AT: 1715 5th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 MUSIC: Mozart Concerto No.3 for Violin and Orchestra [...]
- Five Minutes MAX
  BLUE MESA RELEASE PARTY…. Come to RB Winnings (on Harvard just south of Central) 7 pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 for the BLUE MESA REVIEW RELEASE PARTY We’re celebrating the release of Issue 22 with Readings from the Blue Mesa Review, ..and.. LIVE MUSIC! ..and.. an open mic (5 MINUTES MAX)
- Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
  Posted by Rick Do your part and write something ban-worthy next week! __________________________________ Banned Books Week 2009. September 26−October 3 Source: ala.org Banned Books Week (BBW): Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this […]
- First Works in Progress for Fall 2009
  The Works in Progress event, a reading of, well, works in progress of the students in the MFA / Creative Writing program alongside faculty, begins THIS FRIDAY, September 18 at 7pm at Winnings Coffee on Harvard just south of Central. Come early to get a coffee or snack, and a good seat– the place fills up! Featured [...]
- SAVE THE DATE(S): Works In Progress Readings
  Each semester, the Creative Writing Program hosts Works In Progress readings featuring faculty and MFA students. These readings will take place at at 7pm at R.B. Winnings Coffeehouse, on Harvard just south of Central September 18th October 23rd November 13th Details forthcoming, but DO schedule these events into your calendar…
- TIME TO WRITE
  Julie Shigekuni has set up an informal writing time open to MFAs, undergrad creative writing majors, and faculty every other Wednesday, 12:00-1:30, beginning next week, in the Zimmerman Library Westwing Reading Room located on the north/west side of the library: 9/2, 9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 11/25, 12/9 I know I am looking forward to spending [...]
- Heard of Church of Beethoven?
  If not, this is one of the finest gigs a literary-and-music-loving audience can enjoy in Albuquerque. The performance series, started by Felix Wurman, has been running for over a year now and will actually move into a new space this coming Sunday. Each Sunday morning “service” combines classical music and poetry. Quartets, duets, solos–plus […]
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- Pizza at Joe's on Vassar
  Recurring Event First start: 2009-08-27 18:00:00 MDT Duration: 10800 Where: Joe's on Vassar Event Status: confirmed Event Description: English Department Graduate Student Association hosts this weekly pizza party. Go early, or the free pizza will be gone. Beer always flows, but thats on your own dime.
- BMR for Credit (ENG 520) Info meeting
  When: Wed Sep 2, 2009 3pm to 4pm MDT Where: Eng Dept Lounge Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Interested in working with BMR for course credits (English 520), please come to an informational meeting or send an email to Sam Tetangco (Editor Extraordinaire) at tetangco@unm.edu
- English Department Welcome Picnic
  When: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:30pm to Sat Aug 29, 2009 9pm MDT Who: Literary Events Where: Lawn of University House --UNM Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Food, drink, music, etc
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- Hayden’s Ferry Review Puts the Spotlight on Erika Sanchez
  My writing process is a bit like me: irrational. Sometimes images seem to haunt me until I am compelled to write a poem around them; other times I do everything I can to “break my eye open” (this concept comes from my favorite TV series, “Six Feet Under.”) To break your eye open is exactly what [...]
- My Own Horn
  posted by Jennifer Simpson I’m really good at tooting other people’s horns. I also good at telling other people to toot their own horns. But when it comes to my own successes, for some reason I get shy all the sudden. So, I’m taking a deep breath. Here goes. I have been selected to receive the 2009 IMAGE [...]
- One of our own featured on Duke City Fix
  Poet Tanaya Winder is the featured poet on Duke City Fix this Sunday morning: “I come from the Duckwater Shoshone and Southern Ute nations. I was raised on the Southern Ute Indian reservation in southern Colorado; I consider that place along with the Pyramid Lake Paiute reservation in Nixon, NV my two homes, my origins. Because [...]
- Instructor Amy Beeder: Poetry in Review(s)
  Amy Beeder’s poems are forthcoming this fall in Poetry, The Southern Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West and The Laurel Review. Her poem, “Captain Haddock vs. the PTA,” which appeared in Poetry’s July/August issue, was also featured on a Poetry magazine podcast. In September she will read poems as part of Ellen Rothenberg’s e […]
- Louise Gluck and Dana Levin: a conversation
  Dana Levin recently interviewed poet Louise Gluck, from www.poets.org– This article originally appeared in issue 36 of American Poet, the biannual journal of the Academy of American Poets: Dana Levin: I wanted to start by asking about your new book, A Village Life, which is coming out this Fall. Time feels spatial in the book, as [...]
- Pixels for Elizabeth
  Elizabeth Tannen (MFA/ creative non-fiction) just had a piece published over on NPR.org, Victorian Thorns In Today’s Modern Love: I tend to think of my romantic dilemmas as distinctly modern. You know, navigating things like Facebook and text messaging and everything else along that awkward precipice between men and technology. Recently, though, it […]
- Julie Shigekuni in ABR
  If you haven’t done so already, do check out Julie’s article, “Act Truly,” in the May/June 2009 American Book Review, in which she responds (along with 8 others) to the question, “Why Teach Creative Writing?’ It’s an interesting question, with a thoughtful response, and one that bears pondering. As it happened, in on […]
- Congratulations to our Published Comrades!
  From Julie Lori Ostlund, whose wonderful story “No One Walks to the Mennonites” appeared in Blue Mesa Review Issue 19, will give a reading and host a fiction workshop on Friday, November 6th. Lori is the author of THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD, which won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction award. I just received word [...]
- News from Erika Sanchez
  My poem “Earthquake: Nicaragua,1972″ will be published in Whiskey Island. Thanks! See you soon. Best, Erika Sanchez
- Congrats to our own Tanaya Winder
  Tanaya Winder spent the first year of the MFA program traveling once a month to her home on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southern Colorado where she volunteered teaching creative writing workshops at a local library. She was nominated for the First Peoples Fund “Community Spirit Award,” which annually honors established American Indian […]
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