Author Manuel Munoz, one of the Valley's rising literary stars, will be speaking this Thursday at Reedley College.

Originally from Dinuba, Munoz is the author of two highly acclaimed short story collections:

"The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue" (Algonquin Books, 2007), and
"Zigzagger" (Northwestern University Press, 2003).

Are women writing from the edge in Fresno, California? Women in Los Angeles are. Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles is a collection of short stories that captures the beauty of what it is to be a woman. And that story links the contributing women authors and characters to women everywhere out on the edge, which is life.

For those aspiring Central California writers out there...