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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sarah Wetzel Poetry Reading

Sarah Wetzel, last year's winner of the Philip Levine Poetry Book prize, will read from her winning book Bathsheba Transatlantic on Friday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Peters Educational Center (in the Student Recreation Center at Fresno State.

Sarah Wetzel is a poet, essayist, and engineer. She grew up a daughter of the American South, but somehow ended up in Israel after job-hopping across the Americas and Europe. Sarah graduated from Georgia Tech in 1989, and in 1997, received a MBA from The University of California, Berkeley.

She completed a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in January 2009. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2009, her work has most recently been published or is forthcoming in US publications including Rattle, Pedestal, Stirring, DecomP, Folly, TwoReview, Shampoo, and Eclectica, and in Israeli publications including Cyclamens and Swords. She currently lives in Israel with her husband, four step children, and one needy dog.

Corrinne Clegg Hales
Professor of English
MFA Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
5245 N. Backer Ave., M/S PB98
Fresno, CA 93740-8001

connieh@csufresno.edu
559-278-2359

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