516 WORDS
Saturday, November 17, 8pm
516 ARTS invited the public to the 516 WORDS literary arts series for an eclectic evening of readings and dance, featuring fiction writers Heather Campbell and Felicia Karas and guest Anuradha Kowtha who performed a dance piece from Southern India. 516 WORDS is an ongoing literary arts series presented in partnership with the UNM M.F.A. in Creative Writing program.
Heather Campbell is from Central and Western Maine and drove out to Albuquerque in her 1996 Pontiac to join the M.F.A. program at UNM. She writes fiction and poetry and is particularly interested in magical realism. She is currently working on “coming of age” stories set in rural Maine.
Felicia Karas was born in Simi Valley, California, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Since then, she has lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Beloit, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; and Galway, Ireland. She is a student in the M.F.A. program at UNM. She writes fiction and nonfiction.
Anuradha Kowtha is an M.A. student in the English Department at UNM studying Rhetoric and Writing. She has always had an interest in Bharata Natyam and has studied the dance form for eleven years. She recently spent a semester abroad in India pursuing that interest. She is working on a research project on the Rhetoric of Bharata Natyam.
This event is organized by Chris Boat, 516 WORDS literary arts series coordinator. For more information, please contact chris@516arts.org.