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9/23/02

JUDITH ORTIZ COFER PART OF SLU'S WRITERS SERIES

CANTON - Essayist, short-fiction writer, novelist and poet Judith 
Ortiz Cofer will speak at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, 
October 3, at 8:15 p.m. in Eben Holden, as part of the St. Lawrence 
Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	A native of Puerto Rico, Ortiz Cofer teaches at the Franklin 
College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. Among 
her works are The Latin Deli, a collection of essays, fiction and 
poetry that received the Anisfield Wolf Award; the story collection 
An Island Like You, which won the first Pura Belpre Award and was 
named a Best Book of the Year 1995-96 by the American Library 
Association; and Silent Dancing, awarded a PEN/Martha Albrand 
Citation in non-fiction. Her work has been anthologized in The 
Best American Essays and The Norton Book of Women's Lives, among 
others, and it has appeared in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and 
others. 
	For more information, contact the English department at 
315-229-5125.

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