Posted on June 17, 2024
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Class of 1949 will host a poetry and fiction reading by UNCG alums Ruth Dickey and Tita Ramirez on Thursday, October 3rd at 6PM in the UNCG Alumni House on College Avenue. A part of the UNCG English Department’s 2024 Homecoming Celebration, the event is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a reception hosted by the UNCG English Department.
Originally from North Carolina, RUTH DICKEY is a writer and cultural worker based in Brooklyn, NY, who has spent 30 years working at the intersection of community building, writing, and art. She is a recipient of the Mayor’s Arts Award from Washington, DC, and an individual artist grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Ruth is the author of Mud Blooms, selected for the MURA Award from Harbor Mountain Press (2019), and awarded a 2020 Silver Nautilus for Books that Build a Better World, and Our Hollowness Sings (Unicorn Press 2024). Her poems have recently appeared in Cave Wall, Kestrel, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rhino, SWIMM, storySouth, Vice Versa, and Zocalo Public Square. Ruth holds an MFA in poetry from UNC Greensboro, and a BS in Foreign Service and an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. She is a voracious reader, an ardent fan of dogs and coffee, and was a co-founder of mothertongue: DC women’s spoken word. Ruth began her career as a teaching artist, leading poetry workshops in soup kitchens, drop-in centers, and the DC Public Schools, and she currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.
Tita Ramírez grew up in Miami, the daughter of a Cuban exile and a Kentucky native. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in LitHub, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Tita holds an MFA in fiction from UNC Greensboro. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and their two sons, and teaches creative writing at Elon University. Tell It to Me Singing is her debut novel.
For directions and more information about parking: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Alumni House
