Award winning international authors Angie Cruz and Nathalie Handal

 

Tuesday, November 5 7:00 pm  Nathalie Handal & Angie Cruz     Click here fo free tickets   Poet/translator Nathalie Handal and novelist/editor Angie Cruz both write about life in motion. About borders, citizenship, and transcending divisions. About what home means. The two artists visit Alphabet City to read from newly published works and, in an unusual program that brings together poetry and fiction, discuss how international literature can help us coexist in an increasingly divided world.   Click here for Free tickets   Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, The Irish Times, among others. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column "The City and the Writer" for Words without Borders magazine. PHOTO © RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS   Angie Cruz is the author of three novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and, most recently, Dominicana. She has published work in The New York Times, VQR, Gulf Coast Literary Journal, and other publications, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. PHOTO © ERIKA MORILLO   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.    Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations   Copyright © 2019 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212