Kate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children's book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It's gotten love from BUST, Publisher's Weekly, BuzzFeed, MTV, Ms., Teen Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, GOOD, The New York Times, AFROPUNK, and all kinds of other rad outlets. Her […]

  Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? "I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I'm hoping it will encourage our students to think […]

Jeremy Love is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and animator. His critically acclaimed, Eisner Nominated, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest […]

Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995),  A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and On Such A Full Sea (2014), which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction  and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. His other awards and citations […]

Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher's Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013),Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the […]

Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please Thank You. Born 1976 in Los Angeles, Yu graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School. He lives with his wife and […]

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert. Christopher David Rosales is from Paramount, CA. His first novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories […]