Reading: Sarah Viren and Venita Blackburn

Arizona State University College of Integrative Sciences faculty members and authors Sarah Viren and Venita Blackburn will read from their recent award-winning works, at Changing Hands Bookstore's Tempe location.

Viren will read from her book of essays "Mine," winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. Blackburn will read from her book of stories "Black Jesus and Other Superheroes," winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and currently a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Bingham award for debut fiction for 2018 . 

Both of the creative writers are on the Faculty of Languages and Cultures on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus.