Cristina Garcia Featured at Auburn Writers Conference

National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcia will be a featured keynote speaker at the fourth annual Auburn Writers Conference, “Artful Crossroads: Where the Arts Intersect,” on Friday, October 18, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. Her keynote will be free and open to the public. The conference, hosted by the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts’ Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities and Department of English, offers instruction, practice, perspective, and community for both established and emerging writers. 

 Garcia is the author of seven novels, including: Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to Luck, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and the recently published King of Cuba. García has edited two anthologies, Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others.

 “Artful Crossroads” invites writers and readers to come together and talk not only about craft and publishing, but about the ways in which our words reflect other forms of art. For some, it will be the creation of characters who happen to be artists, for others, it might be the fusing of literature with another kind of artistic expression, such as music, visual art, or performance.

The 2013 Auburn Writers Conference is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts’ Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, Department of Music, Department of Theatre, School of Communication & Journalism, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, the Southern Humanities Review, and the Auburn University Special Lectures Fund.