I'm Ander Monson.
I'm the director of the MFA program in creative writing,
and I'm the director of the Prose Series this year.
And this is the last of our Prose Series events
for the year.
We're really excited tonight to have some of our favorite alums
back to read for us.
Some of them have not gone too far.
You may-- they're familiar faces.
But we're really happy to celebrate them and their work
and their many successes.
So I'm the pre-introduction.
We thought about having a pre-pre-introduction,
as we sometimes do, but we wisely decided not to do that.
So I'm just creating my own layered pre-introduction.
My job is to say welcome to all of you.
A couple of announcements, and then I'll
introduce those who are actually introducing the readers.
So don't worry, there will be plenty of layers to be had.
First I'd like to thank the Haury Program
for helping to support this event, as well as
the English department and SBS.
College of SBS.
So tonight we have three brilliant readers for you,
and I'll just introduce the introducers here.
I should say up front, we're not going
to do a Q and A afterwards.
Because it's always awkward with three people
when everyone only has questions for one or whatever.
And I should also--
I have an admission to make.
That, though this is the Prose Series event,
not all of the readers tonight are prose-ers.
One of them may be a poet.
So it's an inaccurate name that we've come up with,
but we wanted to celebrate her work along
with our other alums.
So the order is going to be-- tonight
is going to have Maddie Norris introducing Tommy Mira y
Lopez first.
Then Gabriel Palacios introducing Sylvia Chan.
And Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell introducing Paco Cantú.
And we will, however, as you may notice-- thanks to everyone
for having books.
Please buy books.
They're happy-- our writers will be
happy to sign books afterwards, and answer questions
individually should you have them.