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Frances Payne Adler, Director, Creative Writing and Social Action Program, teaches creative writing and social action, women's literature, multicultural poetry. She received her M.F.A. from Arizona State Univ. and is the author of four books: Raising the Tents (Calyx), and three collaborative poetry-photography books and exhibitions with photographer Kira Carrillo Corser: Home Street Home (Red Cross); Struggle To Be Borne (San Diego State Univ. Press); When The Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction (NewSage Books). Their latest exhibition, "A Matriot's Dream: Health Care for All," showed recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Diana Garcia coordinates the Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking courses. She teaches composition and rhetoric, creative writing, contemporary world literatures, and Chicana/o literature. She received her MFA from San Diego State University. Her work is published in Touching The Fire: 15 Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance, ed. Ray Gonzalez (Anchor/Doubleday); and Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction, ed. Gary Soto (Chronicle Books). Her collection of poetry, When Living was a Labor Camp, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000, received an American Book Award in 2001.
Debra L. Busman teaches creative writing and social action, American Literature, and English composition and is the HCOM Coordinatore of Service Learning. She received her M.F.A. from Mills College. Her
work is published in Demeter, Chinquapin, Women's
Studies Quarterly, 580 Split, and The Walrus.
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