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Daniel Riddle Rodriguez

• June 9, 2015

Daniel Riddle Rodriguez, an undergraduate in 91短视频’s creative writing program, took first place in a national literary magazine contest for his work “Low Village.” Rodriguez’s contest win earned him $1,000 as well as the publication of his work in the CutBank Chapbook.

“Low Village” is a collection of interconnected short stories set in and around San Lorenzo, where Rodriguez lives with his son. Most of the characters are amalgamations of people Rodriguez grew up with.

"This is a prestigious national contest, and a significant achievement,” CSUEB professor Jacqueline Doyle said. “Daniel has taken a number of creative writing classes with me. He's tremendously talented, and I'm so pleased to see him reap this well-deserved reward."

Rodriguez wrote two of the short stories in one of Doyle’s classes, and said her editorial help and support were important to his contest win. Rodriguez has also been published in Juked, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Stream Magazine, Fourteen Hills, and others. In 2014, he won the Bambi Holmes Award for emerging writers for his story “Cockroach” in San Francisco State’s national literary magazine Fourteen Hills.

Rodriguez also placed in three contests this year in Occam's Razor, an annual magazine published by the CSUEB English Department, including first place in fiction. He and other prize winners will read at the Occam's Razor launch party for issue No. 32 on Thursday, June 11 at 6 p.m. in the Biella Room on the Hayward campus.