USC MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL WRITING students 2011

Students from the Master of Professional Writing graduate program at USC will read their work, joined by USC faculty member and acclaimed poet Amy Gerstler! This reading's theme is "Road Trip--Get Me Outta Here!" and the student readers are: Erin La Rosa, Sarah Lowe, Justin McFarr, Breene Murphy, and Russell Nakamura. Amy Gerstler is a writer of nonfiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review, New Yorker, and Best American Poetry. Her book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her most recent book is Dearest Creature (Penguin); she also edited the anthology The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner). THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MARCH 25, 2011.