Filipino fiction writer, poet, essayist and filmmaker Vicente Garcia Groyon and Indian poet Mani Rao, who lives in Hong Kong - both in residence this fall in the University of Iowa International Writing Program ( IWP ) -- will present a free reading at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in Prairie Lights Books.
Groyon, a faculty member at De La Salle University in Manila, is a two-time winner of the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award and he is the editor of a number of anthologies and collections of Filipino fiction. He has written four film scripts and has also directed several short films. He participates through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Rao, who is in her second stint with the IWP, is the author of seven books of poetry. Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and many anthologies, with translations published in seven languages. Her multimedia work can be seen on http://www.manirao.com/.
The biographies of all the 2009 IWP writers are accessible at http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/index.html.
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