The Center for Literary Arts presents acclaimed author Venita Blackburn, Compton-born creative writing professor and founder of Live, Write, an organization offering free creative writing workshops. Blackburn reads from her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, which addresses the mania of grief through an end-of-the-world lesbian assassin. Prior to this, her work received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, leading to the 2017 publication of her collected stories Black Jesus and Other Superheroes. In 2021, she published another collection, How to Wrestle a Girl, which won a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
Thu, Feb 19, 6:30pm, Free
Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose
