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Humanities Author Series with Erika Hayasaki

The School of Humanities invites you to our Author Series with

Erika Hayasaki

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
6:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1030

Please join us to hear Erika Hayasaki, assistant professor in the LIterary Journalism Program, read from her new book The Death Class: A True Story About Life. Booklist called it, "...a completely engaging look at death and the meaning of life.”

Erika Hayasaki is an assistant professor in the Literary Journalism Program at UCI, an undergraduate degree program dedicated to studying and practicing narrative journalism, where she teaches workshops in narrative nonfiction writing, as well as classes in digital narrative storytelling. She is the author of The Death Class: A True Story About Life (Simon & Schuster 2014). She is a contributing health and science writer for The Atlantic and Newsweek, and the Los Angeles editor for Narratively, a digital publication devoted to in-depth feature stories. Erika spent nearly a decade as an award-winning reporter covering breaking news and writing feature stories for the Los Angeles Times, where she was a staff metro reporter, education writer, and New York-based national correspondent. She has published more than 900 articles for the Times and various other publications including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles magazine and The Big Roundtable. Her Kindle Single, Dead or Alive, has been an Amazon bestseller.

Event is free and open to the public.

To RSVP click HERE.

Parking is available in Lot 7 for $10.

If you have any questions please contact Marijana Lekousis at marijana@uci.edu or 949-824-1605.