Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
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The lounge areas in the Poetry Center are utilized by many creative writing students. Students are encouraged to borrow a book and read on the chairs. The University of Arizona has a lot to offer, with over 300 majors and a faculty of about 3000 members. With such large numbers, it’s possible that students may not have the opportunity to learn about professors outside their own major. However, here are three professors from the creative writing program that you can get to know and possibly even meet during your time at the UA. Francisco Cantú Francisco Cantú teaches mostly nonfiction creative writing courses at the UA. He will start his tenure track in the fall of this year. He studied international relations at American University and joined the border patrol soon after he graduated from 2008-2012. The program he studied at was geared toward getting students plugged into government jobs. Growing up in Arizona, he was interested in the U.S. and Mexico border. This experience led him to write “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border.” In this book, he talks about how he became a border patrol agent, his time with the border patrol and why he left that in his past and pursued teaching. His book was published in 2018 and was coined as “an instant New York Times bestseller” by Penguin Random House Canada. On what inspired him to share his story, Cantú said, “I think the day-to-day happenings of working as a border patrol agent were very unknown to me before I went into the job, and I also recognize that writing about them would sort of shed light on this thing that was often unseen. I imagined that I could maybe help change things from within in my brief time, which is pretty naive, but that’s how we are as young people a lot of times.” Being in the border patrol he realized the things he imagined weren’t happening. “I started to realize the things I had imagined happening weren’t going to happen. The answers I imagined, I wasn’t going to find […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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