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DESCRIPTION:Recipients of the 2021 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing
  in recognition of excellence in publication will read from their works:\n\
 nJulie Phillips Brown\, MFA '08\, PhD '11\, Poet\nJulie Phillips Brown is a
 n interdisciplinary poet\, artist\, critic\, and editor. She is the author 
 of The Adjacent Possible\, winner of the Hopper Poetry Prize\, and the foun
 ding editor of House Mountain Review. She has held research fellowships in 
 contemporary poetry and poetics from the Society for the Humanities at Corn
 ell University and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory Universit
 y. Recent work appears in Revolute\, The Rumpus\, Twyckenham Notes\, Vassar
  Review\, and elsewhere.\n\nLena Nguyen\, MFA '16\, Novelist\nThe daughter 
 of Vietnamese immigrants\, Lena Nguyen taught courses in English\, writing\
 , vampires\, and zombies at Cornell\, and has studied writing all over the 
 country\, including at Harvard\, Stanford\, and Brown University. Her scien
 ce fiction and fantasy have won several accolades\, and WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
  HERE\, her debut novel\, was a Booklist starred review and an Amazon Edito
 rs' Pick for Best Science Fiction. Lena also works as a game developer and 
 is currently writing her second novel.\n\nMichael Prior\, MFA '17\, Poet\nM
 ichael Prior is the author of Burning Province (2020)\, which won the Canad
 a-Japan Literary Award and the BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Po
 etry Prize. His poems have appeared in places like The New Republic\, Poetr
 y\, and the Academy of American Poets's Poem-a-Day Series. The recent recip
 ient of fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center and t
 he Jerome Foundation\, Prior is an Assistant Professor of English at Macale
 ster College. \n\nRenia White\, MFA '16\, Writer\nRenia White is the author
  of Casual Conversation\, a Blessing the Boats Selection forthcoming in Spr
 ing 2022. Originally from Maryland\, she came of age in Riverdale\, GA befo
 re earning her BA and MFA from Howard and Cornell University\, respectively
 . She received the 2015 Hurston/Wright Foundation College Writers Award in 
 poetry. Her work appears in publications such as The Offing\, Slice\, Witne
 ss\, Southern Indiana Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in NYC.\n\nBooks by
  the authors will be available for purchase at the reading courtesy of Itha
 ca's local cooperative\, Buffalo Street Books.\n\nBook signing to follow.\n
 \nDOORS OPEN at 4:30 p.m.\nCornell ID REQUIRED for admission — Masks REQUIR
 ED\nOpen only to attendees who are current Cornell students or employees. C
 ornell employees attending indoor events must complete the Daily Check prio
 r to attendance. For latest guidelines visit covid.cornell.edu.\n\nPhilip F
 reund ’29\, MA ’32\, was a novelist\, short-story writer\, poet\, documenta
 ry film writer\, playwright\, television dramatist\, essayist\, and literar
 y critic. The Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing honors graduates upo
 n their successful publication. \n\nThis event is presented by the Departme
 nt of Literatures in English / Creative Writing Program at Cornell Universi
 ty
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LOCATION:Klarman Hall\, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium (G70 Klarman Hall)
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SUMMARY:Freund Prize for Creative Writing Alumni Reading by Julie Phillips 
 Brown\, Lena Nguyen\, Michael Prior\, & Renia White
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