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Thank you Kate.

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Oh, well, this is great.

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We have three writers who
graduated from the program come

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to read and a whole
bunch of us that are

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in love with the written word.

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Cara Blue Adams is
remembered around here,

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not only for her fine
fiction but for her warmth

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and her generosity
in the classroom.

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She has been winning so
many honors and accolades

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in the past several years that
it would be a challenge for her

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to keep her website up-to-date.

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But we can tell you
that among other things

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she has published regularly
in such top magazines

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as Granta, Epoch, and
the Kenyon Review.

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She was profiled
in Poets & Writers,

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was a New York City
emerging writer fellow,

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a visiting scholar of
interdisciplinary studies

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at Concordia
University in Montreal,

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and the recipient of
the Meringoff Prize

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in fiction from the Association
of Literary Scholars, Critics,

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and Writers.

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Her wonderful story collection,
You Never Get It Back,

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won the John Simmons Short
Fiction Prize, a great honor,

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and was published by the
University of Iowa in 2021.

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The collection went on to be
named a New York Times Editors'

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Choice.

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It could easily be classified
as a novel without the padding,

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said the Times'
review of the book.

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While each episode
is somewhat discrete,

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this carefully
curated collection

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forms a greater
and more satisfying

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whole than the sum of
its happy and sad parts.

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And it is happy and sad.

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It was quite a
chore for me to get

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myself a way to do other things
while I was reading the book.

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Adams spent five years on the
Southern Review Editorial Board

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and subsequently became
the review's co-editor.

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Currently she's associate
professor at Seton Hall

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University where she also
directs the campus reading

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series, Poetry-in-the-Round.

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She's completing a book
length lyric essay, Weather,

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about climate change,
and a novel, Removal,

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set in Boston
shortly after 9/11,

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and focusing on immigration law.

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It is delightful
to have her here.

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[APPLAUSE]

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