Poets Michelle Peñaloza and Tina Mozelle Braziel are alumni of the UO’s Creative Writing Program.
Michelle Peñaloza's collection Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, published in 2019, won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize.
Tina Mozelle Braziel's collection Known by Salt, published in 2019, won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.
Peñaloza and Braziel will give virtual readings of their work on January 20th, 2021 as guests of the UO’s Creative Writing Program.
