Carla Crujido "The Strange Beautiful"

Inspired by family lore and a little help from an actual advertisement found in The Spokesman-Review, Carla Crudijo's short stories take a look into the lives of ten tenants over a hundred years.

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Date/Time: Jan. 16, 2024, 7 p.m.
Venue: The Spokesman-Review
Chronicle Pavilion
999 W Riverside Ave, 7th Floor
Spokane, WA 99201

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Carla Crujido is the Nonfiction Editor at River Styx Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and has had writing published in Moss, Bellingham Review, Crazyhorse, Yellow Medicine Review, Ricepaper Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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A&E > Northwest Passages

‘There’s nothing worse than a forgotten story’: With ‘The Strange Beautiful,’ Carla Crujido mixes fantasy and Spokane history

Sun., Jan. 14, 2024

Author Carla Crujido has lived all over the country but Spokane has always been special to her.

A&E > Books

Ron Sylvester: Real magic in ‘The Strange Beautiful’

Fri., Jan. 12, 2024

Anyone who’s ever fantasized about sex with Tinker Bell, but wasn’t sure how that would happen, Carla Crujido has you covered. But flings with flying sprites is only a start to the wild world of “The Strange and Beautiful” series of short stories and fiction writing debut for Crujido.