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Farewell Reading
w/Beth Alvarado, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Arianne Zwartjes

Thursday, March 29
7 p.m.

Reader Bios

Beth Alvarado’s recent titles include “The Dead Child Bride,” “Days of the Dead,” and “The Astonished Dead.”  Not everything she writes is about the dead but everything—so far—is set in the beautiful Sonoran Desert.  She teaches at the University of Arizona, where she met Aisha and Ari, who were both generous readers of her book, Anthropologies. She trusts they will come back to Tucson.  At least to visit.  Often.

 

Aisha Sabatini Sloan grew up in Los Angeles. She earned her Masters degree in Cultural Studies and Studio Art at NYU, and an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. He work has appeared in journals such as Ninth Letter, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Callaloo. Currently, she teaches writing at the University of Arizona and works as a waitress who can't for the life of her describe wine, although this is arguably the most literary part of her job. Soon enough, she is going to drift away from the solid foundations that her Tucson friends have provided in search of new, strange, siren literary songs that have been echoing off the coasts of Italy and Detroit.

 

After earning her MFA at the University of Arizona, and teaching English and creative writing there for six years, Arianne Zwartjes is on her way to northern New Mexico as director of the wilderness program at the United World College. She is an EMT and an instructor for the Wilderness Medicine Institute and NOLS, and is the author of (Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays, The Surfacing of Excess, Disem(body), and Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy. She's gonna miss Tucson and especially this wonderful writing community.