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Last Updated: 11/2/2009 2:21:41 PM

The Literary Southwest Presents Seiferle and Turchi

Authors Rebecca Seiferle and Peter Turchi

For its final program of 2009, The Literary Southwest brings to Prescott and Yavapai College two wonderfully accomplished writers—award-winning poet Rebecca Seiferle and ASU Director of Creative Writing Peter Turchi. The event will be held on Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Yavapai College Library’s Susan B. Webb Community Room (Bldg. 19, Room 147) on the Prescott campus. A Q & A session and book signing follows the reading. All Literary Southwest programs are free and open to the public.  
 
To complement the reading, a special companion event will be held on Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.m. at the downtown Prescott Public Library’s Founders Suite. That evening The Literary Southwest and the Library will present a free illustrated lecture by Turchi based on his most recent book: Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer.  
 
Rebecca Seiferle was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2004. Her fourth poetry collection, Wild Tongue, (Copper Canyon, 2007) won the Grub Street Poetry Prize for Best Poetry Collection of 2007. Her previous poetry collections have won the Western States Book Award, a Pushcart prize, the Hemley and Bogin Awards, the Writer's Exchange Award, and the National Writers' Union Prize. She has translated two book-length collections of the Spanish of Cesar Vallejo, most recently The Black Heralds (Copper Canyon, 2003). Seiferle is the Founding Editor/ Publisher of the online international poetry journal, The Drunken Boat, http://www.thedrunkenboat.com. She has been a guest poet at a number of literary conferences and festivals; her work has been translated into Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Spanish. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and teaches at The Art College in the English and Fine Arts Department.  
 
Peter Turchi is the author of Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie, in collaboration with the artist; a novel, The Girls Next Door; a collection of stories, Magician; and The Pirate Prince, co-written with Cape Cod treasure hunter Barry Clifford, about Clifford's discovery of the pirate ship Whydah. He has also co-edited, with Andrea Barrett, The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work and, with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Colorado Review, among other journals. "Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning," was listed as one of 100 Notable Stories of 2002 by the editors of Best American Short Stories and one of “15 Recommended Stories” by the jury for the O. Henry Prize Stories and has been translated into Arabic. He has received Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, North Carolina's Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 1993 through 2008 he taught fiction in and directed The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He now teaches fiction writing at Arizona State University, where he is Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.  
 
The Hassayampa Institute Presents The Literary Southwest is made possible by Yavapai College and grants from The Prescott Area Arts and Humanities Council and The Friends of the Prescott Public Library, with additional support provided by Yavapai College Student Activities and Residence Life, and Barnes & Noble.  
 
For complete author and series information, visit: http://www.yc.edu/content/HASSAYAMPA Or contact either Series Director Jim Natal, through the Communications Division at 928-776-2276 or James.Natal@yc.edu, or Gwen Raubolt, Yavapai College Quad-City Communications Manager, at 928.776.2288 or Gwen.Raubolt@yc.edu.