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Writers in Residence
CHRIS ABANI to be Fall Quarter 2009 Visiting Writer in Residence
Teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction
A native of Nigeria, Abani is the author of The Virgin of Flames, GraceLand, Masters of the Board and Becoming Abigail, and four collections of poetry. He has received 2009 Guggenheim in Fiction, the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.
Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and editor of McSweeney’s magazine, said, “If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.”
