California Writers Series

On Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m., the California Writers Series and Walter Stiern Library will host a reading by the poet Matthew Zapruder.  Zapruder earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  His honors include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2008 May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the New School; the University of California Riverside, Palm Desert; and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches in the St. Mary's MFA program, works as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books, and rocks out as a guitarist in the band The Figments.

For more on Zapruder's work, vist his page at The Poetry Foundation, and visit Divedapper to read a great interview.