The Writer’s Garrett presents:
Texas Writers’ Month with John Phillip Santos, Susannah Charleson & Njoki McElroy
Friday, May 21, 7:30 PM, Location: McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 3120 McKinney Ave Dallas 75204
John Phillip Santos is a widely published author and media producer who has created documentaries in sixteen countries for CBS and PBS. Mr. Santos was a Rhodes Scholar and holds degrees in English Literature and Language from Oxford University, and Philosophy and Literature from the University of Notre Dame. Santos’s memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (Viking/Penguin) was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999, and the inaugural selection of the 1 Book 1 San Antonio project in 2006. In 2006, he launched the San Antonio-based Liceo Mestizo, and international interdisciplinary roundtable exploring mestizo identity and consciousness through seminars, symposia, exhibitions and performance. His first book of poems, Songs Older than Any Known Singer (Selected and New poems) was published in 2007 by Wings Press, and the sequel to his memoir, The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire is forthcoming from Viking/Penguin in April of 2010.
Susannah Charleson’s first book, Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog, follows her work in the field beside her canine search partner, a Golden Retriever named Puzzle. Part memoir, part immersion journalism, Scent of the Missing will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April.
Playwright, storyteller, performer, Njoki McElroy taught Performance Studies of Black Literature for thirty-five years at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and is currently an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. A number of her short stories have been published in anthologies and her plays have been produced on college campuses and on the professional stage. Along with Joyce Carol Oates, Ntozake Shange and Rita Dove, Dr. McElroy’s short story appears in the acclaimed anthology From Daughters to Mothers: I’ve Always Meant to Tell You. She is the author of Black Journey and African Folktales Guide for Improved Listening and Learning Skills. She resides in Dallas and the Chicago area.
Admission:
$5 Members, Students & Seniors / $8 Others
Tickets available at the door or here (http://www.writersgarret.org/txwm.shtml)