The Last of the Menu Girls and Face of an Angel as well as the numerous one-act plays she has written since the 1970s. Robert Murray Davis is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Don Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature. James Hoggard is the McMurtry Distinguished Professor of English at Midwestern State University. More than 20 other writers and poets will make presentations at the conference.
Admission is free to all sessions and the public is welcome.
The sessions will meet in the auditorium of the ASU Mathematics-Computer Science Building. Thursday, Feb. 24. The day will culminate with a 7 p.m. presentation with Ch vez, followed by a booksigning and reception. Dr. Gloria Duarte, an ASU English professor and program chair for the conference, will moderate the concluding session. The Last of the Menu Girls is a book of seven related stories focusing on an adolescent New Mexican girl and her rites of passage into womanhood.