WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.170 align:middle line:90% I'm Ander Monson. 00:00:01.170 --> 00:00:03.545 align:middle line:84% I'm the director of the MFA program in creative writing, 00:00:03.545 --> 00:00:05.670 align:middle line:84% and I'm the director of the Prose Series this year. 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:08.760 align:middle line:84% And this is the last of our Prose Series events 00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:09.780 align:middle line:90% for the year. 00:00:09.780 --> 00:00:14.310 align:middle line:84% We're really excited tonight to have some of our favorite alums 00:00:14.310 --> 00:00:17.640 align:middle line:90% back to read for us. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.110 align:middle line:84% Some of them have not gone too far. 00:00:19.110 --> 00:00:22.008 align:middle line:84% You may-- they're familiar faces. 00:00:22.008 --> 00:00:24.300 align:middle line:84% But we're really happy to celebrate them and their work 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:27.400 align:middle line:90% and their many successes. 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:29.040 align:middle line:90% So I'm the pre-introduction. 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:31.830 align:middle line:84% We thought about having a pre-pre-introduction, 00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:35.650 align:middle line:84% as we sometimes do, but we wisely decided not to do that. 00:00:35.650 --> 00:00:39.330 align:middle line:84% So I'm just creating my own layered pre-introduction. 00:00:39.330 --> 00:00:41.983 align:middle line:84% My job is to say welcome to all of you. 00:00:41.983 --> 00:00:43.650 align:middle line:84% A couple of announcements, and then I'll 00:00:43.650 --> 00:00:46.260 align:middle line:84% introduce those who are actually introducing the readers. 00:00:46.260 --> 00:00:49.080 align:middle line:84% So don't worry, there will be plenty of layers to be had. 00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:52.200 align:middle line:84% First I'd like to thank the Haury Program 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.480 align:middle line:84% for helping to support this event, as well as 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:56.190 align:middle line:90% the English department and SBS. 00:00:56.190 --> 00:00:57.180 align:middle line:90% College of SBS. 00:00:57.180 --> 00:01:00.690 align:middle line:84% So tonight we have three brilliant readers for you, 00:01:00.690 --> 00:01:03.397 align:middle line:84% and I'll just introduce the introducers here. 00:01:03.397 --> 00:01:04.980 align:middle line:84% I should say up front, we're not going 00:01:04.980 --> 00:01:06.645 align:middle line:90% to do a Q and A afterwards. 00:01:06.645 --> 00:01:08.520 align:middle line:84% Because it's always awkward with three people 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:11.610 align:middle line:84% when everyone only has questions for one or whatever. 00:01:11.610 --> 00:01:13.130 align:middle line:90% And I should also-- 00:01:13.130 --> 00:01:14.880 align:middle line:90% I have an admission to make. 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:17.310 align:middle line:84% That, though this is the Prose Series event, 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:21.300 align:middle line:84% not all of the readers tonight are prose-ers. 00:01:21.300 --> 00:01:23.280 align:middle line:90% One of them may be a poet. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.920 align:middle line:84% So it's an inaccurate name that we've come up with, 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.170 align:middle line:84% but we wanted to celebrate her work along 00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:30.150 align:middle line:90% with our other alums. 00:01:30.150 --> 00:01:32.900 align:middle line:84% So the order is going to be-- tonight 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:35.970 align:middle line:84% is going to have Maddie Norris introducing Tommy Mira y 00:01:35.970 --> 00:01:37.740 align:middle line:90% Lopez first. 00:01:37.740 --> 00:01:41.610 align:middle line:84% Then Gabriel Palacios introducing Sylvia Chan. 00:01:41.610 --> 00:01:45.660 align:middle line:84% And Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell introducing Paco Cantú. 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.480 align:middle line:84% And we will, however, as you may notice-- thanks to everyone 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.470 align:middle line:90% for having books. 00:01:49.470 --> 00:01:50.352 align:middle line:90% Please buy books. 00:01:50.352 --> 00:01:51.810 align:middle line:84% They're happy-- our writers will be 00:01:51.810 --> 00:01:54.570 align:middle line:84% happy to sign books afterwards, and answer questions 00:01:54.570 --> 00:01:57.140 align:middle line:84% individually should you have them.