Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!

Zoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl, which was short-listed for the Story Prize, and a novel, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review and others, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.  She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.

Daniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series, the IFC television series of the same name, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart.