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Britt Haraway
Interim Director for Creative Writing
Creative Writing
ELABS 125
Email: britt.haraway@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3252

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David Carren

Professor
Phone: (956) 665-2634
Email: david.carren@utrgv.edu
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David Carren

Associate Professor David Bennett Carren film and TV credits include Star Trek, Stargate, Murder, She Wrote, and The Red Queen

His recognition includes a First Place in the New York Television and Film Festival, a Writer’s Guild Award Nomination, and semi-finalist status in the 2013 Eugene O'Neil National Playwright's Conference. His plays have been performed at a variety of venues, including the Back Alley Theater in Los Angeles.

David earned his Bachelor in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and his Master in Fine Arts at Spalding University. He teaches screenwriting, film directing, and film history.

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Professor
Department of Theatre
Email: david.carren@utrgv.edu
ELABS 148
Phone: (956) 665-2634
Phone Alt: (956) 665-3252

Elvia Ardalani

Associate Professor
Phone: (956) 665-3443
Email: elvia.ardalani@utrgv.edu
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Elvia Ardalani

Dr. Elvia Ardalan, Associate Professor, is the author of the following poetry collections: Y comerás del pan sentado junto al fuego (Claves Latinoamericanas, 2002), De cruz y media Luna/From Cross and Crescent Moon (Claves Latinoamericanas, 2006) Miércoles de Ceniza (Migual Angel Porrúa, 2007), Cuadernos para un huérfano (Claves Latinoamericanas, 2012), Callejón Kashaní (Imaginarium Literario, 2013) and El ser de los enseres/The Being of the Household Beings (Libros Medio Siglo, 2014). She has published in Isla Negra, Perito, Sinalefa and Puentes, among other venues. She co-edited in 2011 the book Miguel Hernández desde América for the Miguel Hernández Foundation in Oriuela, Spain. In the field of translation she has translated Rumi, Omar Khayam, and Hafez into Spanish. She has been nominated for the Jose Fuentes Mares Award and the International Carlos Pellicer Poetry Award. She graduated from Texas A&I University with a doctoral degree in the field of Bilingualism and Language Acquisition.

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Associate Professor
Writing and Language Studies
Email: elvia.ardalani@utrgv.edu
ELABS 315
Phone: (956) 665-3443

David Bowles

Associate Professor
Phone: 956-665-3427
Email: david.bowles01@utrgv.edu
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David Bowles

David Bowles is a Mexican-American author and educator from south Texas. Recipient of awards from the American Library Association, Texas Institute of Letters and Texas Associated Press, he has written several titles, most significantly the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Smoking Mirror. Additionally, his work has been published in venues including Rattle, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Metamorphoses, Translation Review, the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Huizache, Axolotl, Concho River Review, Eye to the Telescope, Asymptote and BorderSenses.
Associate Professor
Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies
Email: david.bowles01@utrgv.edu
ELABS 229
Phone: 956-665-3427

Christopher Carmona

Associate Professor
Phone: (956) 882-7302
Email: christopher.carmona@utrgv.edu
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Christopher Carmona

Christopher Carmona was the inaugural writer-in-residence for the Langdon Review Writers Residency Program in 2015. His story, “Strange Leaves,” was a finalist for the Texas Observer Story Contest in 2014. He has one collection of short fiction entitled, The Road to Llorona Park and two collections of poetry: beat and I Have Always Been Here.. He has edited two anthologies, Outrage: A Protest Anthology about Injustice in a Post 9/11 World and The Beatest State in The Union: An Anthology of Beat Texas Writing. He was also a co-author for Nuev@s Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue about New Chican@ Identities.

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Associate Professor
Creative Writing
Email: christopher.carmona@utrgv.edu
BLIBR 2418
Phone: (956) 882-7302

Luz Martin

Associate Professor
Phone: (956) 665-3421
Email: luz.martin@utrgv.edu
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Luz Martin

Edna Ochoa is an Associate Professor at University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. She teaches Creative Writing, Latino/a Literature, Spanish Language Journalism, and Mexican American Studies courses. She is the author of Sombra para espejos, Respiración de raíces, La cerca circular, Jirones de ayer, Ruinas, and El método más efectivo y otras obras breves. Her translations to Spanish include Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez and The Frog and His Friend Saved Humanity by Víctor Villaseñor. In 2009, she was a recipient of the Provost Award for Latin American Studies for UTPA. She is also a performer, director and playwright. Her essays have been published in several books and journals.

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Associate Professor
Literature and Cultural Studies
Email: luz.martin@utrgv.edu
ELABS 327
Phone: (956) 665-3421
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