Blake Sanz Featured in Yellow Pine Reading Series
Linda Tate

Blake Sanz, faculty member in the University Writing Program, read from his novel-in-progress on Tuesday, October 16. Sanz was one of five featured readers in the Yellow Pine Reading Series in North Boulder.

Like much of Sanzs fiction, the novel-in-progress focuses on his home state of Louisiana. "The novel," says Sanz, tells the story of Tommy and Heidi, a New Orleanian couple whose allegiances to each other and their city are tested before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. Sanz says that he hopes the novel will be an homage to what old New Orleans was in its last year, a testament to the storm and its aftermath, and a story of how some New Orleanians now see themselves in relation to their city, their loved ones, and the nation at large.

Sanz holds a BA from Loyola University in New Orleans and an MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame, where he taught writing before joining the faculty at Louisiana State University. At LSU, Sanz taught Latin American Literature and Literature of the South, as well as fiction and composition. Sanz has published short fiction in The Bend, Xavier Review, and RE:AL.

Organized by Boulder writer Ellen Orleans, the Yellow Pine Reading Series is a quarterly mix of town, gown, regional, visiting, experienced, and emerging writers. Poets, memoir writers, essayists, fiction writers, and those who blur definitions come together at this growing series.

Writers interested in presenting at Yellow Pine should email a writing sample (five pages of prose or three of poetry) to eorleans@earthlink.net or to Ellen Orleans, P.O. Box 1348, Boulder, CO 80306.

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