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Event Name:

Word Thursdays - Dorothy Blloom Cel + Mary Makofske & Sunil Yapa

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Sep 27 2012 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Sep 27 2012 at 10:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

Bright Hill Literary Center

Contact Name:

Bertha Rogers

Contact Email Address:

wordthur@stny.rr.com

Contact Phone Number:

607-829-5055

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

MARY MAKOFSKE, Warwick, NY, was the winner of the Richard Snyder Prize for her book Traction, published by Ashland Poetry Press in 2011. She is also the author of The Disappearance of Gargoyles (Thorntree) and Eating Nasturtiums, winner of a Flume Press chapbook competition. She lives with her husband in a solar house in Warwick, NY, where they enjoy a large vegetable, fruit, and flower garden and a view of a mountain. She’s taught at Ramapo College of New Jersey and at SUNY Orange, from which she retired in 2006. SUNIL YAPA, Pensacola Beach, FL, is a graduate of the Hunter College M. F. A. program in Fiction, where he was selected for two Hertog Fellowships and the Alumni Scholarship awarded to one fiction student every three years. He has received scholarships to the Norman Mailer Writers’ Center, The New York State Summer Writer’s Institute and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was the 2010 National winner of the Asian American Short Story Award. The son of a father from Sri Lanka and a mother from Montana, he has lived and traveled in forty-eight states and thirty-five countries. He is currently finishing a novel set during one day of anti-corporate protests. Free to age 18 and under.