Distinguished Romance Novelist to visit with AAST minors & students of ENGL 364

On Friday, October 19, the African American Studies program will be pleased to welcome on campus a distinguished romance novelist, AlTonya Washington.  She will be visiting with Dr. Conseula Francis’ English 364 class which is focused on Black Women Writers. 

After class, all African American Studies students are invited to attend a lunch discussion with Ms. Washington in the 9 College Way conference room at noon.

About Ms. Washington: (from her website, http://www.lovealtonya.com/index.html)

“AlTonya Washington has been a romance novelist for 9 years. Her novel Finding Love Again won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Multicultural Romance in 2004.

She lives in North Carolina and recently received her Masters Degree in Library Science. She’s served as an Instructor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC where she taught “Writing the Romance Novel” for two years.”

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