Renowned author Lucha Corpi will speak at the TCU Spanish department’s Green Chair Public Lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9 at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center on campus. Corpi, also known for her poetry and activism, will discuss “The Detective Novel in the Spanish-speaking World.”

Corpi earned her bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from University of California - Berkeley and a master’s degree in world and comparative literature from San Francisco State University. She has received many awards for her writing including the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction for her book Eulogy for a Brown Angel: A Mystery Novel.  In 1990, she received a Creative Arts Fellowship in fiction for the city of Oakland and was named poet laureate for Indiana University Northwest.

Lucha Corpi currently resides in Oakland, CA as a tenured teacher for the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Center Program where she has worked since 1973.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call TCU’s Spanish department at 817-257-7366.

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