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Professors
receive recognition
By
Ted Goslin
Online Forty-Niner
Staff Writer
For
most students on campus, writing is either
a hopeful profession or a dreadful task.
But for Cal State Long Beach English professors
Lisa Glatt and Suzanne Greenberg, it's breakfast,
lunch, and dinner.
Both
Glatt and Greenberg are published authors.
Greenberg recently wrote a collection of
short stories called, "Speed Walk and
Other Short Stories." She was awarded
the 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which
is the most important award for a short
story writer.
Glatt's
successful novel, "A Girl Becomes a
Comma Like That," has received glowing
reviews from The New York Times, The Washington
Post and Elle. The novel is about a poetry
teacher who lives with her dying parent
while she and her friends try to connect
with reality.
Both
authors recently gave a reading of their
work to a live audience at the Long Beach
Museum of Art.
"I
really enjoyed the reading. I admire Lisa
and her work," Greenberg said. "The
funny part of the whole thing was that nobody
knew that we knew each other and that made
it that much more enjoyable."
"I
thought that both books were incredible,"
said graduate student, Oceana Callum. "They
are both so good at taking something that
is considered an everyday thing and making
it seem like a new experience. Lisa wrote
about cancer in such a way that it shows
the tragic side, but also a funny side that
is unexpected."
In
1995 Greenberg began writing fiction and
non-fiction stories. After she completed
her graduate work, she began teaching creative
writing for CSULB.
"I
would say that I am a better teacher when
I'm writing," Greenberg said."
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