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Join us for MPC's Guest Authors Series discussion this spring with Becky Chambers!

Wednesday,  May 5, 2021 (7 - 8 pm PST)

Zoom link: Contact Creative Writing Program and Guest Authors Series Director Henry Marchand: hmarchand@mpc.edu

Science Fiction novelist Becky Chambers is the author of the Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which explores the lives and cultures of human (and other) populations centuries after the human race has left a depleted Earth to seek its destiny elsewhere. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others.

In addition to the Wayfarers books, Becky is the author of numerous short stories and the novella, To Be Taught, If Fortunate. She also collaborated on The Vela, a digital serial novel written with others including Yoon Ha Lee, Rivers Solomon, and S.L. Huang.

She has two new works coming out in 2021: The Galaxy, and The Ground Within (the fourth and final Wayfarers novel), and A Psalm for the Wild-Built (the first of her Monk and Robot novellas).

This event is free and open to the public - all are welcome!

About the Series

As participants in The MPC Guest Authors Series, accomplished writers of poetry and prose come to our main campus in Monterey for public readings and discussions of writing and literature with MPC students.

Supported by The MPC Creative Writing Program, English Department, and Humanities Division, as well as The MPC Foundation and The Arts Council for Monterey County, the Series typically presents two Guest Authors each academic year, one in the Fall and one in the Spring semester.

Further enhancing the vibrant and inspiring Creative Writing environment at MPC, the Series offers extraordinary opportunity for those who pursue their own writing interest by way of our multi-genre Creative Writing curriculum to meet with and learn from diverse literary artists of consummate skill.

More about Creative Writing and the MPC Guest Authors Series: www.mpc.edu/creativewriting

Questions? Contact hmarchand@mpc.edu

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