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Three free public readings of works by
notable fiction writers will be held this month at Fresno State.
Readings, all open to the public, will be at the Alice Peters Auditorium
in the University Business Center, 5245 N. Backer Ave.
The authors are finalists for a fiction
writing tenure track position in the English Department. In addition to
the reading, each author also will have a question-answer session for
English Department graduate students and faculty.
David Anthony Durham will read at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19.
 Durham
received his MFA from the University of Maryland College Park in 1996.
He is the author of three novels: “Gabriel's Story,” “Walk Through
Darkness” and “Pride of Carthage,” all published by Doubleday. “Acacia,”
his fourth novel, is scheduled for June publication.
He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Colorado College, and on
the faculty of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA
Program. Durham has taught at various writing programs across the
country, including as the 2003 Distinguished Visiting Writer at Fresno
State.
Aimee Phan will read from her work at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22.
 Phan
received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2000.
She wrote “We Should Never Meet” (St. Martin’s Press, 2004), a
collection of linked short stories that won the Association for Asian
American Studies Book Award in 2004 and the Kiriyama Notable Book Award
in 2005.
Phan has published stories in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie
Schooner, the Colorado Review and Chelsea, among other journals; and
essays and articles in such publications as USA Today, Nguoi Viet 2 and
the New York Times. She teaches at Washington State University.
Alex Espinoza will give a public
reading of his work at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26.
 Espinoza
received his MFA from UC Irvine in 2004. He is the author of the
just-published novel “Still Water Saints” (Random House), which was
named a "Discover Great New Writers" selection at Barnes and Noble
Booksellers; “Jesus Stole My Bike” (The Chicano Chapbook Series); and a
number of short stories and essays in journals and anthologies. His
second novel (about a Mexican actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood), is
also under contract at Random House.
Espinoza has served as co-editor of Faultline and as co-director of the
MFA reading series at UC Irvine. He teaches at UC Riverside, and has
been Mentor for the Puente Project at two colleges.
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