I'm Ander Monson.
I'm the director of the Prose Series and the MFA program
here at the University of Arizona.
And I'm happy that we don't have to do a pre-pre-introduction.
But thank you so much to the Poetry Center for hosting us
tonight, and for you all for coming out,
for Poets and Writers who's helping
to co-sponsor this event tonight, as well as the MFA
program in creative writing, College
of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
the English department, and Chevron.
I made up the Chevron.
But if Chevron would like to get involved in a sponsorship role,
we'd be happy to have them.
So first I'm here to pre-introduce,
first we're going to have Kristen Radtke as introduced
by Miranda Trimmier.
And the second we'll have Charles Yu as introduced
by Emilio Carrero.
We will have a Q and A afterwards,
so you can think of your questions
if you'd like answers.
And I'm really happy to have so many people here tonight.
It's very exciting to be amongst lovers of excellent writing,
and these are two of my favorite writers working today.