TEXAS UNBOUND LITERARY FESTIVAL 2007
All readings will take place at the Undermain Theatre at 3200 Main Street in
Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas unless otherwise specified.

ADMISSION
Student-rate admission per event: $5
General admission per event: $7
5-day festival pass: $30

SCHEDULE
Download a printable PDF of the Festival Schedule, July 25th through 29th.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 8 p.m.

EMERGING WRITERS READING

Yvonne Dutchover, Diane McGurren, Cynthia Sample, Christine Granados

Yvonne Ramos Dutchover is a sixth-generation Texan. She has a BA in English and
Spanish Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in creative writing
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her nonfiction work has been published in
The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, Citysearch.com, F News,
AAA Texas Journey, and other print and online publications. She is currently seeking
representation for her first novel and is working on a novella.

Diane McGurren is a graduate of Baylor University (B.F.A. '01) and currently working on her Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Dallas with a concentration in Aesthetic Studies. Her visual art has appeared in galleries in Waco and Dallas and most recently in Minneapolis. Themes of faith and family often appear in Diane’s work, in addition to historical references to the vernacular objects and architecture of her native Parker County. Diane is currently the editor of Sojourn, the arts journal of The University of Texas at Dallas.

Cynthia Sample is a graduate of the MFA Fiction program at Vermont College. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member at both Southern Arkansas University and South Arkansas Community College. Her stories have been published in regional journals including Between the Lines.

Christine Granados was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She is a stay-at-home mother of two sons and a freelance journalist. Her collection of short stories, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco was published by University of Arizona Press in 2006. She was winner of the 2006 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award, a grant given by Sandra Cisneros to further the aspirations of new writers. Her stories have been featured in Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature, Texas Observer, El Andar Magazine, Big Tex[t] and the Newspaper Tree. She is a graduate of UT El Paso's School of Communications and the MFA creative writing program at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX.

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 8 p.m.

FEATURE POETRY READING

Afaa Weaver & Natasha Marin

Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver), poet, playwright, short fiction writer, and translator working principally in Chinese, is the author of nine collections of poetry.  In 2008, U of Pittsburgh Press will publishThe Plum Flower Dance, Weaver’s tenth collection, in the format of a reader.  Afaa has received NEA and Pew fellowships.  He has been a Fulbright scholar and Pulitzer finalist.  He received his M.F.A. from Brown University and now teaches at Simmons College.  He has been a Cave Canem faculty member since 1996 and was named the organization’s first Elder.  

Natasha Marin is a founding member of the Gibbous Moon Collective and a Cave Canem Fellow. In 2003, she was the recipient of a James A. Michener Fellowship. She holds degrees in English from Tufts University and the University of Texas. A participant in the Callaloo Writers' Workshops, her work has been published in several magazines including Borderlands, International Poetry Review, Southern Indiana Review, Feminist Studies Journal and Midwest Quarterly.

Presentation of Service to Literature Award to Curtis King will precede reading

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 8 p.m.

THEATRE NIGHT

St. Nicholas is a darkly comic one-man piece about theatre and love by the brilliant Irish playwright Conor McPherson. Ken Webster plays the role of a theater critic who relates tales of his life among the vampires. Hannah Kenah of the Austin Chronicle called it "one hell of a one-man show." Jean Claire van Ryzin of  The Austin-American Statesman wrote, "...Ken Webster’s St. Nicholas is a tour-de-force."

Ken Webster is the artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas. He has been nominated for 43 B. Iden Payne Awards and 15 Critics’ Table Awards for acting, directing, and producing. He has received twelve B. Iden Payne Awards, including a 2004 award for directing The Drawer Boy and a 2003 award for directing Quake at HPT. He also received a 2003 Austin Critics’ Table award for directing Something Someone Someplace Else and Marion Bridge for HPT and was awarded the 1999 Critics’ Table John Bustin Award for "conspicuous achievement." His directing credits for HPT include You’re No One’s Nothing Special, Lonely, The Evidence of Silence Broken, Chopper, The Glory of Living, Radio:30, Ham, Blue Surge, Perdita, Blur, and the world premiere of Art Stripped Naked. His acting credits include The Water Principle, Vigil, and House for HPT. His recent film acting credits include Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. Webster was recently inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.

SATURDAY, JULY 28

David Yoo at The Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art, 3 p.m.

David Yoo is the author of the novels Girls for Breakfast (Delacorte, 2005), which was named a NYPL Best Book for Teens and a Booksense Pick, and the forthcoming novel After School Special (2008). He has published fiction and nonfiction in various literary journals and anthologies, including: The Massachusetts Review, Rush Hour, the Maryland Review, and Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking). He currently teaches fiction at the Gotham Writer's Workshop. David holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MA in Creative Writing from CU-Boulder. He lives in Boston.

Fiction Reading with Katherine Taylor, 7 p.m.

Katherine Taylor’s first novel, Rules For Saying Goodbye, will be published in June 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  She has won a Pushcart Prize and the McGinnis-Ritchie Award in fiction. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Graduate Writing Fellow. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and Shenandoah.  She lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a second novel.

Emerging African-American Poets at 8:00 p.m.

Jericho Brown holds the C. Glen Cambor Fellowship at the University of Houston Ph.D. Program in Creative Writing and Literature, and he has an MFA from the University of New Orleans.  He is also a Cave Canem Fellow and recipient of the 2006 James A. Michener Fellowship, two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, and two Bread Loaf Writers' Conference work-study scholarships.  He is poetry editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, New England Review, AGNI, and Callaloo.

Roger Reeves is a Cave Canem Fellow and a teaching poet. He received his B.A. from Morehouse College and his M.A. in English from Texas A&M University. He currently teaches African Studies and French at Texas A&M. His work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including the Cave Canem Anthologies IX and VIII.

Alysa Hayes received a B.A. from Texas A&M University, where she won the 2005 Gordone Award in Poetry. She has participated in workshops under various noteworthy poets including Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Trethewey and Afaa Weaver. Her poetry has been published in internationally-distributed journals such as, Callaloo. Currently she is a freelance writer in Austin and a member of the Theater Action Project (TAP), where she guides young public school students in performing arts and poetry projects.

SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2 p.m.

JERRY KELLEY: Clinkers: My Canadian Years

It’s the ‘60s. Everyone is reading William Blake and into free love, drugs and multi-media. Hey, I’m talking about the 1860s. Watch Jerry Kelley recover the remains of his past in an evening of fragments (images/texts) exploring how he survived graduate school.

Jerry Kelley holds a BA degree from Harvard University. He has published poetry in The Texas Observer as well as a number of little magazines in North Texas. His fiction has appeared in Southwest Review. He lives in old East Dallas with his wife, Patty Turner.

Tammy Gomez: She: Bike/Spoke/Love

She: Bike/Spoke/Love is a multimedia spoken-word performance work which celebrates bicycling (as a symbol of self-reliance and freedom) and sustainable lifestyles, but also depicts the tensions between a Latina mother and her daughter who see life differently because of conflicting social and cultural values. Featuring poetry, choreographed bicycling, video sequences, and turntablists, She: Bike/Spoke/Love will premiere on or near World Car-Free Day 2007 Fort Worth, TX.

Tammy Gomez, a 2007 Texas Medal of Arts award nominee, is a spoken-word artist and multimedia performer who is recognized for her cutting-edge performance artwork, including the award-winning "Maya Matematica" and "Malinchuca", as well as her poetry – which has been widely anthologized. She has been artist-in-residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Urbana-Champaign, and the Headlands Center for the Arts and has received grants from Humanities Texas, the Texas Writers’ League, and the City of Austin, in addition to being a Creative Capital award finalist. Tammy is profiled in "Las  Tejanas: 300 Years of History" (UT Press: Austin), and is featured in "Voices from Texas", a documentary film about Tejano poets.  According to FW Weekly arts editor Anthony Mariani, Tammy is the "local Spoken-Word Poet Laureate."

In September of 2007, Tammy will present the world premiere of her spoken word theater play "She: Bike/Spoke/Love"--with the support of a NALAC (National Association for Latino Arts & Culture) Artist Production grant, funded in part by the Ford Foundation.

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