We're delighted to join the Goucher College Blueprint Reading Series in inviting you to two free events with author Claire Jiménez: a 3pm craft talk, and a 7pm reading + Q+A! Both will take place at Goucher College in the Soper Room of the Julia Rogers Building (JR227).

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Claire Jiménez is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, 2019) and What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central, 2023). She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and her PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In 2020 she cofounded the digital archive The Puerto Rican Literature Project with a group of other Puerto Rican writers and scholars and the US Latino Digital Humanities Center at the University of Houston. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.

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