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Intern Update: Addison Rizer

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Addison Rizer, Interview Editor for Issues 20 and 21

We’re excited to share Addison Rizer, a past Interview Editor, has just joined Publishers Weekly as a nonfiction reviewer. Addison’s academic and professional accomplishments have bloomed since her time at Superstition Review. She graduated from NAU with an MA in Professional Writing in 2022.

She began working as a contributor for Book Riot in December of 2020. Her Book Riot article “I Wrote a Poem After Every Book I Read in 2020” was featured in an episode of CBC’s As It Happens with Nil Köksal and Chris Howden posted on February 21, 2021. She is a guest in the episode about 58 minutes in, or you can read the transcript.

Before graduating from ASU and starting her MA at NAU, Addison was part of ASU’s Psyche Inspired program from 2018 to 2019, a program that gathers undergraduates from all disciplines as interns creating content for NASA’s Psyche mission. You can read about her experience as part of Psyche Inspired here.

Addison Rizer was our Interview Editor for issue 20 and issue 21. Her work can be found on her website.

#ArtLitPhx: Fall 2018 Series Premier ft. Erik Bitsui and Stacy Murison

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#ArtLitPhxDate: August 27th

Time: 7pm-8pm MST

Location: Uptown Pubhouse 114 N Leroux St. Flagstaff, Arizona 86001

Event Description:

The Fall 2018 edition of the award-winning Narrow Chimney Reading Series returns on August 27th! We can’t wait to kickoff another fantastic session from the amazingly talented writers and poets who continually grace the Uptown stage.

Our first reading in the series will feature Erik Bitsui and Stacy Murison, both of whom are pillars of the locally literary community.

Erik Bitsui is a Navajo writer from Blue Gap, Arizona. In 2014, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetic at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Bitsui is also a founding member of the Northern Arizona Book Festival. He is currently a DJ for Radio Sunnyside located on 4th Street in East Flagstaff.

Stacy Murison’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Hobart, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, River Teeth, and The Rumpus among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Northern Arizona University where she now teaches composition.

Come join us for the first event of the season, it’s sure to be a great one!

#ArtLitPhx: Prisoners Without Chains with Jerry Garcia

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Senior lecturer of ethnic studies at NAU, Dr. Jerry Garcia, will be holding an author’s talk titled “Prisoners Without Chains: The Forced Relocation of Japanese Mexicans 1942-1945” on Tuesday, May 16th. The free event features a small group discussion (limited to 12 RSVPs) from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Afterwards, from 6:45 PM to 8:30 PM there will be a presentation and Q&A. The event will be held at Arizona Humanities, located at 1242 N Central Ave Phoenix, AZ 85004. Light refreshments will be served. For more information and to RSVP to the event click here.

Explore the Japanese Mexican experience during World War II and learn how it was markedly different than the Japanese American experience in the United States. Dr. Jerry Garcia from Northern Arizona University shares how the Japanese negotiated a distinct space within Mexican culture where Japanese identity and ethnicity was maintained and rarely challenged due to a perception that the Japanese displayed markers of whiteness that were associated with western imperialism and power. Examine how the Japanese adjusted during turbulent and transformative periods in Mexican history and the over-arching policies of the U.S. regarding Japanese immigration throughout the Americas.

Dr. Garcia’s new book Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945 examines Japanese immigrants in Mexico and the United States during World War II. The book focuses on the experiences of the Japanese on both sides of the borders and the similarities and differences in their treatment.  You can purchase the book through University of Arizona Press here and use discount code AZHUM17 for a special offer.

Dr. Garcia received his doctorate from Washington State University and was the former Director of the Chicano Education Program and the College Assistance Migrant Program at Eastern Washington University. He is now the Senior Lecturer for Ethnic studies at Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on Chicano History, Latin American History, History of Mexico, Asians in the Americas, immigration, empire, masculinity, and race in the Americas.

SR Pod/Vod Series: Writer William Cordeiro

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WillIam CordeiroEach Tuesday we feature audio or video of an SR Contributor reading their work. Today we’re proud to feature a podcast by William Cordeiro.

Will recently completed his MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His work appears or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutBank Online, Drunken Boat, Fiction Southeast, Fourteen Hills, Harpur Palate, Phoebe, and elsewhere. He is grateful for residencies from ART 342, Blue Mountain Center, Ora Lerman Trust, Petrified Forest National Park, and Risley AIR at Cornell University. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he is a faculty member in the Honors Program at Northern Arizona University. 

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel.

You can read along with the work in Superstition Review.