Sunday, March 13 from 2:30pm-3:30pm Arizona Time

The University of Arizona's graduate program in Creative Writing is one of the most widely respected in the U.S. Here are three reasons why. In this event moderated by current UA MFA Director Susan Briante, meet graduates Katherine Standefer, Justin St. Germain and Sophia Terazawa, who are here to discuss their work ... and the 50th anniversary of the program. A signing will follow at the UA Bookstore Tent.

Location: University of Arizona— Koffler Room 218 (Wheelchair accessible)

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Justin St. Germain is the author of the book-length essay "Truman Capote's In Cold Blood." His first book, the memoir "Son of a Gun," won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. St. Germain was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Marsh McCall Lecturer at Stanford after receiving his degree from the University of Arizona. A native of Tombstone, he now teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. 

A graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program in creative writing, Sophia Terazawa is the author of "Winter Phoenix" and the forthcoming "Anon". While at the UA, she served as poetry editor for Sonora Review.

Katherine Standefer is the author of "Lightning Flowers," one of Oprah Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2020 and a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. Deeply personal and sharply reported, the book recounts Standefer's own harrowing experience with the American healthcare system and explores the high cost of saving one life. Standefer has been featured in People Magazine and on NPR's Fresh Air. Standefer earned her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona and taught in the Department of English. She lives on a piñon- and juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.