WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.278 align:middle line:90% I'm Ander Monson. 00:00:01.278 --> 00:00:03.570 align:middle line:84% I'm the director of the MFA program in creative writing 00:00:03.570 --> 00:00:05.695 align:middle line:84% and I'm the director of the prose series this year. 00:00:05.695 --> 00:00:08.400 align:middle line:84% And this is the last of our prose series 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:09.780 align:middle line:90% events 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 --> 00:00:31.800 align:middle line:84% We thought about having a pre-pre-introduction 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.390 align:middle line:90% as we sometimes do. 00:00:33.390 --> 00:00:35.620 align:middle line:84% But we wisely decided not to do that. 00:00:35.620 --> 00:00:39.330 align:middle line:84% So I'm just like creating my own layered pre-introduction. 00:00:39.330 --> 00:00:42.070 align:middle line:84% My job is to say welcome to all of you, 00:00:42.070 --> 00:00:43.500 align:middle line:84% a couple of announcements and then 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:45.042 align:middle line:84% I'll introduce those who are actually 00:00:45.042 --> 00:00:46.260 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:00:54.390 align:middle line:84% for helping to support this event, as well 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:57.180 align:middle line:84% as the English department and SBS, 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 --> 00:01:03.438 align:middle line:84% and I'll just introduce the introducers here. 00:01:03.438 --> 00:01:04.980 align:middle line:84% I should say up front we're not going 00:01:04.980 --> 00:01:07.273 align:middle line:84% to do a Q and A afterwards because it's always 00:01:07.273 --> 00:01:09.690 align:middle line:84% awkward with three people when everyone only has questions 00:01:09.690 --> 00:01:11.610 align:middle line:90% for one or whatever, 00:01:11.610 --> 00:01:13.150 align:middle line:90% And I should also-- 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:16.420 align:middle line:84% I have an admission to make, that though this is the prose 00:01:16.420 --> 00:01:21.300 align:middle line:84% series event, not all of the readers tonight are prosers. 00:01:21.300 --> 00:01:23.280 align:middle line:90% One of them may be a poet. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.170 align:middle line:84% So it's an inaccurate name that we've 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:28.170 align:middle line:84% come up with 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 --> 00:01:32.890 align:middle line:84% So the order is going to be tonight 00:01:32.890 --> 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 --> 00:01:42.135 align:middle line:84% Then Gabriel Palacios introducing Sylvia Chan and Lee 00:01:42.135 --> 00:01:45.660 align:middle line:84% 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 --> 00:01:51.180 align:middle line:84% for having books, please buy books. 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:53.220 align:middle line:84% Our writers will be happy to sign books 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:55.140 align:middle line:84% afterwards and answer questions individually 00:01:55.140 --> 00:01:57.140 align:middle line:90% should you have them.