[APPLAUSE]
Thank you all for coming out tonight.
I'm Ander Monson, and I direct the creative writing program,
and I'm also coordinating the Prose Series this year.
And thanks for the Poetry Center to having us
as part of what is, possibly, the best year of readings
I've ever seen at the Poetry Center.
Looking at the schedule, that's the way it looks to me.
So thank you so much for making space for us tonight.
So tonight we have two readers.
We're going to read in order, and have Karen Brennan and then
Julie Iromuanya.
And I want to say, yeah, thanks a lot for coming out.
We're really excited.
Karen's an alum of the UA, and a writer that I admire greatly.
And of course Julie is one of our faculty members.
So first, we'll have Karen being introduced by Jessica Malordy.
And then, second, we'll have Manuel Muñoz introducing Julie
Iromuanya tonight.