BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20180110T215326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T215351Z UID:10006579-1521134400-1521139800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-undergraduate-student-reading/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171227T184045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T004937Z UID:10006572-1519320000-1519325400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However\, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.\n \nIn Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence\, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students\, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez\, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work\, showing video/sound footage\, and providing comments\, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry. \n\n  \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction\, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel\, Germany\, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books\, including About to Happen\, 2017\, Read Thread\, The Story of the Red Thread\, 2017\, and Kuntur Ko\, 2015. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-cecilia-vicuna-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171227T183840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T213725Z UID:10006571-1518715200-1518720600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, poet\, performer\, and sound artist\, is author of No Dictionary of a Living\nTongue\, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings\ninclude “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an\nassociate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State\nUniversity and the Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-duriel-e-harris-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171227T183350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183651Z UID:10006570-1517505600-1517511000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, I Hotel\, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award\, the American Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award\, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship and is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-karen-tei-yamashita-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171227T182707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T041537Z UID:10006569-1516900800-1516906200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo DESCRIPTION:Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work\, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback\, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES  (Bloof Books\, 2013).  Her second full collection of poems and artwork is YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017\, Coconut 2014). From 2010-2015\, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem  an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow and a Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2016.) She currently lives and works in Sacramento\, California. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jennifer-tamayo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171004T190900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T190900Z UID:10006552-1512667200-1512672600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:This event will feature undergraduate student readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171004T185756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185756Z UID:10006551-1512062400-1512067800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt DESCRIPTION:James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor\, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008\, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut\, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages\, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan\, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel\, The Clubhouse Thief\, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel\, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)\, received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review. \nEllen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam\, a course which included the voices of American\, Vietnamese\, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course\, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston. \nEllen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature\, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally\, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco\, conducting literary interviews before a live audience. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-james-janko-ellen-greenblatt-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170324T163214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T163214Z UID:10006486-1510853400-1510862400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16\, 2017 at 5:30pm \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \nFree Admission \nDoors will open at 5:20pm\, event starts at 5:30pm \nBook signing and reception to follow \nParking information and directions:\nPlease park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nAbout Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection\, The Book of Men\, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems\, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry\, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition\, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com \nVisit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research\, Living Writers Series\, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Special Collections & Archives\, Cowell College\, Porter College\, Ow Family Properties\, Poetry Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo College English Department\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Writes. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-dorianne-laux-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/08_Poster_1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20171004T185226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185226Z UID:10005418-1510248000-1510253400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Toni Jensen DESCRIPTION:Toni Jensen’s first story collection\, From the Hilltop\, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone\, Denver Quarterly\, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South\, Best of the Southwest\, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress\, called Cowboyistan\, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-toni-jensen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170923T160806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160806Z UID:10006548-1509643200-1509648600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster DESCRIPTION:Sesshu Foster is a poet\, teacher\, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching\, writing\, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry\, City Terrace Field Manual (1996)\, celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry\, World Ball Notebook (2009)\, won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005)\, which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers. \nFoster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000)\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond (2008)\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sesshu-foster-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170923T160516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160516Z UID:10006547-1509038400-1509043800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña DESCRIPTION:Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries\, Calavera Highway\, Skate Manzanar\, Labor Women\, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes\, Locarno\, New Directors/New Films\, San Francisco\, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. \nHer current works are the documentary and transmedia project\, No Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s\, and an interactive history documentary and video game-based learning project on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans\, Building History 3.0. \nTajima-Peña has been deeply involved in the Asian American independent film community as an activist\, writer and filmmaker.  She was the director at Asian Cine-Vision in New York and a founding member of the Center for Asian American Media (formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association.  As a writer\, she was a film critic for The Village Voice\, a cultural commentator for National Public Radio and editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-renee-tajima-pena-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170923T160301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160301Z UID:10006546-1508439600-1508446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn DESCRIPTION:Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association\, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His current book is the bestselling short story collection\, The Refugees.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-viet-thanh-nguyen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170923T155714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T155714Z UID:10006545-1507828800-1507834200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o DESCRIPTION:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature\, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, USA. He was born in Kenya\, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura\, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School\, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University)\, Kampala\, Uganda; and the University of Leeds\, Britain. \nIn his latest book\, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening\, Ngũgĩ recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala\, Uganda\, where he found his voice as a playwright\, journalist\, and novelist. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170923T154944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T154944Z UID:10006544-1507224000-1507229400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega DESCRIPTION:Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives\, material significance\, and geography\, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. \nAs a naturalized American\, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects\, food\, architecture\, visual lexicons\, and vernacular languages. For instance\, vernacular Tagalog\, is infused with Spanish and English words\, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding\, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes\, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier\, material\, linguistics\, and site. \nMichael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum\, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego\, the de Young Museum in San Francisco\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Orange County Museum of Art\, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu\, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston\, Cue Arts Foundation\, and the Asia Society in NY among many others. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-michael-arcega-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170414T194611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T194611Z UID:10006495-1496942400-1496947800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: UCSC Creative Writing Program DESCRIPTION:UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading\n\nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ucsc-creative-writing-program-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170414T194013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T194013Z UID:10006494-1496337600-1496343000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lauren Levin DESCRIPTION:Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans.\n\nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lauren-levin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170414T193747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193747Z UID:10006493-1495128000-1495133400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá DESCRIPTION:Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nRosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna\, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press\, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña\, Lourdes Vázquez\, and Lila Zemborain\, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press\, 2009)\, and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-rosa-alcala-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170413T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170413T185000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20170412T231018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231018Z UID:10006492-1492104000-1492109400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tongo-eisen-martin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T195035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T195035Z UID:10005266-1478798400-1478804400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:Peter Orner is the author of two story collections\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories\, and two novels\, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award. and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Paris Review\, the Atlantic\, and Best American Stories. Orner has received Guggenheim and Lannan Foundation Fellowships\, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. A faculty member at San Francisco State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, he has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, the University of Montana\, and Northwestern University. He lives in San Francisco and Bolinas\, California. \nLiving Writers is an series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as film makers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/orner-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T052000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T194910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T194910Z UID:10005265-1477545600-1477594800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books\, 2015)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan\, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck\, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin\, 1995). Her poems have appeared in recent issues of A Public Space\, Hambone\, Harpers\, The New Yorker\, and Poetry. Willis has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, and the Howard Foundation. She recently joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-elizabeth-willis-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/elizabeth-willis-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T194736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T194736Z UID:10005264-1476984000-1476990000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alfredo Vea DESCRIPTION:Alfredo Vea \nAlfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix\, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian\, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. There were Apaches\, Tarahumara\, Navajo\, Hindus and black folk everywhere\, waiting for trucks to take them to the cotton fields. While his mother barely endured life in this impoverished Babel\, her son lived in a wonderland. He luxuriated in the sound of Uto-aztecan\, Athabascan\, Dravidian and drawl—and the sounds of bible thumping and jive. After ten years or so he was dragged away to work on the migratory labor circuit in California\, the land of stucco houses and aluminum window frames. All of it was drudgery until he began working in vineyards. Then he was ripped away from the vines to become a soldier\, enslaved in Vietnam. Today\, he is an attorney in San Francisco. If you ask him who he is he will never say “lawyer” or “writer.” Touch him and you will find that his skin is adobe. In his dreams\, there are goats scuffling about on the roof and he and his grandfather are asleep on a cot under the stars. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nLiving Writers Fall Schedule 2016 \n9/22 No reading \n9/29 Chanan Tigay \n10/6 Jennifer Chang \n10/13 Michelle Tea \n10/20 Alfredo Vea \n10/27 Elizabeth Willis \n11/3 No reading \n11/10 Peter Orner \n11/17 No reading \n11/24—Thanksgiving \n12/1 Student Reading \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alfredo-vea-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/alfredo-vea-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T194328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T194328Z UID:10005263-1476379200-1476385200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Michelle Tea DESCRIPTION:Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nMichelle Tea \nMichelle Tea is the author of the memoirs The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America\,The Chelsea Whistle\, the illustrated Rent Girl and Valencia\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Valencia has been made into a collaborative feature-length film with 21 different directors\, and toured film festivals globally after a sold-out premiere at San Francisco’s Castro Theater. Valencia the book has been translated into Slovenian\, Japanese\, and German. Michelle’s self-published poetry chapbooks\, produced in the 90s\, are compiled in the poetry collection The Beautiful. She is the author of the novel Rose of No Man’s Land (translated into Italian)\, and has edited anthologies on first person narratives (Pills\, Thrills\, Chills and Heartache)\, the female experience of growing up working class (Without A Net)\, feminist fashion (It’s So You) and up and coming queer female writing (Baby\, Remember My Name). Her latest book is Black Wave\, a memoir-fiction hybrid\, published by Feminist Press\, where she curates the Amethyst Editions series. \nLiving Writers Fall Schedule 2016 \n9/22 No reading \n9/29 Chanan Tigay \n10/6 Jennifer Chang \n10/13 Michelle Tea \n10/20 Alfredo Vea \n10/27 Elizabeth Willis \n11/3 No reading \n11/10 Peter Orner \n11/17 No reading \n11/24—Thanksgiving \n12/1 Student Reading \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-michelle-tea-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/michelle-tea-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T052000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T193808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T193808Z UID:10006403-1475731200-1475780400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Chang DESCRIPTION:Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia\, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection\, The History of Anonymity (2008)\, was selected for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Speaking to the “emotional landscapes” of myths and fairy tales that surface occasionally in her poems\, Chang stated in a 2008 interview on Critical Mass (the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors): “As a scholar\, I don’t trust autobiography\, and as a lyric poet\, I don’t trust narrative: both enforce a coherence that reveals more about the writer’s motives at the moment rather than the life or story being told. What I do trust is mystery; I trust confusion.”Chang co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry. She lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \n10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea\, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave \n10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea\, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy\, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths \n10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis \n  \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-chang-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/jennifer-chang-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T190000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160913T193447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T193447Z UID:10006402-1475169600-1475175600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Chanan Tigay DESCRIPTION:Author of the forthcoming Unholy Scriptures: Fraud\, Suicide\, Scandal—and the Bible that Rocked the Holy City (Ecco/HarperCollins)\, and two long works of nonfiction\, The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army (McSweeney’s) and Nuclear Meltdown\, released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (Rodale Press). Tigay was awarded the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s 2011-2012 Investigative Reporting Fellowship\, where he worked on a documentary film about Israel’s opposition to the Iranian nuclear program for PBS “Frontline.” His journalism has appeared in publications including Newsweek\, the Wall Street Journal\, New York magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. Tigay has taught courses in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program on novel writing\, the “writing life\,” creative non-fiction\, magazine and feature writing; and was a writing instructor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He has received residency fellowships at Yaddo\, the Blue Mountain Center and the Mesa Refuge. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Philadelphia\, Tigay is an assistant professor at San Francisco State. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nLiving Writers Fall 2016 \n10/6 poet Jennifer Chang\, author most recently of the book Some Say The Lark \n10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea\, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave \n10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea\, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy\, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths \n10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-chanan-tigay-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tigay-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160602T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160602T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T170423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T170423Z UID:10006363-1464890400-1464896700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160526T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160526T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T165551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165551Z UID:10006361-1464285600-1464291900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier DESCRIPTION:Emily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave\, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Feature\, TYPO\, The Volta\, Diagram\, and elsewhere. In 2013\, Brave Men Press published This Always Happens\, a book of her drawings\, and she has provided cover art for several poetry collections. She lives in Oakland\, CA. \n  \nPoet Julien Poirier grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and was educated at Columbia University. He has described his poems as a system or a conversation already in progress\, aligning observed and spoken ephemera with sound echoes\, tracing the movement of a restless mind across themes of politics\, poetics\, and daily life. In an article on reading Poirier for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts\, poet Filip Marinovich stated\, “Poirier is a Genius in the classical sense: a resident spirit of Poetry\, arcangeling words through the top of one’s lifted head. …” In a 2013 interview with Noel Black for BOMB Magazine\, Poirier offered the following: “It’s exciting to be writing poems now … because if you can plunge into the simultaneity of all of these events that warped you in some way\, drove you crazy or forced you to find some narrow streak of optimism in the evident relentless disaster\, then you might\, as a poet\, be able to get deeper and deeper into an understanding of what’s happening. You might be able to understand the way things work together and make a poem map\, ‘a map to the map’ as my friend Tony said\, before you forget. And it’s incredibly exciting because there are about a million ways to go about doing this.” \nPoirier is the author of the full-length poetry collection El Golpe Chileño (2010); several chapbooks\, including Flying Over the Fence with Amadou Diallo (2000)\,Short Stack (2005)\, and Stained Glass Windows of California (2012); and the formally innovative newspaper novel Living! Go and Dream (2005). \nA founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-emily-hunt-julien-poirier-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T165333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165333Z UID:10006360-1463680800-1463687100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lev Grossman DESCRIPTION:Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington\, MA. My parents were both English professors\, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too\, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time. \nMy first novel\, Warp\, came out in 1997. My second\, Codex\, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel\, The Magician King\, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book\, The Magician’s Land\, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list. \nThe Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin\, John Green\, Audrey Niffenegger\, Erin Morgenstern\, Joe Hill\, William Gibson\, Kelly Link\, Gregory Maguire\, and Junot Diaz. A Syfy series based on the trilogy is currently shooting and will premiere in early 2016. \nI also write a lot of journalism. I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine since 2002. The New York Timesdescribed me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written a dozen or so cover stories for Time\, and my essays and criticism have also been in the Believer\, the Village Voice\, the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times\, Salon\, Slate\, Wired\, Entertainment Weekly\,  the Week\, Lingua Francaand many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism\, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses\, including Harvard\, Yale and Oxford\, and as a commentator on NPR. \nI live in Brooklyn with my wife\, two daughters and one son\, in a creaky old house. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lev-grossman-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T165143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165143Z UID:10006359-1463076000-1463082300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen\, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize\, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Library Journal Best Nook of the year. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. She is also a UCSC creative writing alum! \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-elizabeth-mckenzie-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T164746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T164746Z UID:10006358-1461866400-1461872700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders DESCRIPTION:Charlie Jane Anders: I’m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books. \nI’m the editor of io9.com\, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed look at the making of Mork and Mindy. Or for my Game of Thrones recaps. Or for my writing advice columns. Ormy in-depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer\, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything\, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied. Or just generally being an obnoxious loud-mouth. \nI won the Emperor Norton Award\, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” \nI have published a ton of short fiction – way over 100 short stories at this point. I’ve stopped counting. My stories have appeared in Tor.com\, Lightspeed Magazine\,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, Strange Horizons\, Apex Magazine\,Uncanny Magazine\, 3 AM Magazine\, Flurb.net\, Monkey Bicycle\, Pindeldyboz\, Instant City\, Broken Pencil\, and in tons and tons of anthologies. One year\, I was in one of the Year’s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time. My novelette “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award. \nI organizeWriters With Drinks\, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. Every month\, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers\, and nobody’s sued yet. Readers/performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin\, plus Mary Gaitskill\, Amy Tan\, Rick Moody\, Jonathan Lethem\, Dorothy Allison\, W. Kamau Bell\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Ruth Ozeki\, Ishmael Reed\, Karen Joy Fowler\, Maureen McHugh and just countless others. The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks. \nBack in 2007\, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science\, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book\, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also\, Annalee and I put out a print magazine calledother\, which was about pop culture\, politics and general weirdness\, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine\, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-charlie-jane-anders-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T162907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T162907Z UID:10006357-1461261600-1461267900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales DESCRIPTION:Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel\, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2003. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney’s\, Fence\, Tin House\, Open City\, One Story\, The Believer\, i09.com\, and various other publications. \nHe is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction. For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids\, Austin Bat Cave\, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin\, TX\, where he baked pies for a living. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-manuel-gonzales-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160404T225011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T225011Z UID:10006356-1460656800-1460663100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Kate Schatz DESCRIPTION: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. \nHer book of fiction\, Rid of Me: A Story\, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her work has been published in Oxford American\, Denver Quarterly\, Joyland\, East Bay Express\, and San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. Her short story “Folsom\, Survivor” was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011. \nShe is a co-founder of The Encyclopedia Project\, and is the Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts. Kate received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown\, and a double BA in Women’s Studies/Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-kate-schatz-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160405T193906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T193906Z UID:10005228-1460052000-1460058300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED) DESCRIPTION:  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“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 outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-githa-hariharan-canceled-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20151117T170827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151117T170827Z UID:10005167-1457627400-1457639100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work DESCRIPTION:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: \nSex Radical\, Afro-Futurist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, SAMUEL R. DELANY\, Reads from His Work \nThursday\, March 10\, 2016\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\nFree and open to the public \n4:30PM Doors Open\n5PM Reception & Book signing\n6PM Reading \nSamuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual\, racial\, and social issues\, heroic quests\, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942\, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red\, Times Square Blue (1999)\, and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968)\, Dhalgren (1975)\, The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87)\, The Mad Man (1995)\, Dark Reflections (2007)\, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)\, and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and\, this year\, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University. \nEvent sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Living Writers Series\, Humanities Division\, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJoin the Discussion\n#ihrevents\nFacebook \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/samuel-delany-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SDelany_FINALweb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T183800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T183800Z UID:10005193-1457028000-1457034300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jeremy Love DESCRIPTION: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 Nightmare for DC Comics\, Fierce and Shadow Rock for Dark Horse Comics as a writer and GI Joe\, Fraggle Rockfor Archaia and Midnight Mover for Oni as an artist.  Love is currently hard at work completing Bayou as well as a new Mini-Series from Dark Horse Comics\, The Black Lotus. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jeremy-love-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T183518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T183518Z UID:10005191-1456423200-1456429500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nHis other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the American Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award\, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award\, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\, and many other publications.  In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.\n\nHe has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.\n\nChang-rae Lee was born in Seoul\, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yale\, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.\n\n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-chang-rae-lee-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160218T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160218T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T183226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T183226Z UID:10005189-1455818400-1455824700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor DESCRIPTION: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 Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature)\, and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner). Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix and her novella Binti. Nnedi is an associate professor at the University at Buffalo\, New York (SUNY). Learn more at Nnedi.com \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nnedi-okorafor-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160119T222634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T222634Z UID:10006337-1455213600-1455219900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker DESCRIPTION:UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\n Wednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\n Nickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\nThursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University\, England\, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy\, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992)\, Frida Film (1993)\, Vorspiel (1994)\, Landing (1995)\, Market Forces (1996)\, Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998)\, The 3 screen installation\, Sehe ice was\, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?\, 2002)\, for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle\, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000)\, she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion\, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen\, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005. \nFor her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary\, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012)\, and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project\, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea)\, a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf\, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n  \n  \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-nigerian-filmmaker-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Branwen-Okpako-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T213000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20150611T224635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T224635Z UID:10005110-1455132600-1455139800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama" DESCRIPTION:Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\nWednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\nNickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\n Thursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\n Humanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University\, England\, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy\, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992)\, Frida Film (1993)\, Vorspiel (1994)\, Landing (1995)\, Market Forces (1996)\, Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998)\, The 3 screen installation\, Sehe ich was\, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?\, 2002)\, for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle\, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000)\, she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion\, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen\, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005. \nFor her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary\, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012)\, and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project\, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea)\, a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf\, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.\n  \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-the-education-of-auma-obama-2/ LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Branwen-Okpako-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T182602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T182602Z UID:10005187-1454608800-1454615100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Charles Yu DESCRIPTION: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 children in Santa Monica\, California. He has been widely published in such places as Oxford American\, The Gettysburg Review\, Harvard Review\, Mid-American Review\, Mississippi Review\, and Alaska Quarterly Review and has been cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story “Class Three Superhero.” He was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its 5 Under 35 program\, which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers. It is determined by previous National Book Award winners and finalists selecting one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find promising or interesting. Richard Powers\, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction\, selected Yu for the honor. \nHis novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was ranked the year’s second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas\, and a runner up for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. The novel has been optioned for a film. The novel focuses on a father-son relationship and the narrator’s search for a father. It includes themes of how we live\, time\, memory\, and creation of the self\, and features a narrator who shares the author’s name and who lives in a time machine with his non-existent dog. His fiction deals with loneliness\, isolation\, time\, memory\, speculative technology\, and is touched with a great deal of humor. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-charles-yu-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T182235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T182235Z UID:10005185-1454004000-1454010300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales DESCRIPTION: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. \nChristopher David Rosales is from Paramount\, CA. His first novel\, Silence the Bird\, Silence the Keeper\, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories have appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad\, and he is a regular contributor to LitReactor. Rosales currently lives in Denver\, where he is the fiction editor for SpringGun Press and a PhD candidate at DU. His second novel\, Gods on the Lam\, is forthcoming Summer 2016.\n\n\n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-stephen-graham-jones-christopher-rosales-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T181657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T181657Z UID:10006324-1453399200-1453405500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Vikram Chandra DESCRIPTION:Vikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code\, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay. His honours include a Guggenheim fellowship\, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia)\, the Crossword Prize\, and the Salon Book Award. He teaches creative writing at the University of California\, Berkeley. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.  \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-vikram-chandra-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20160107T181137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T181137Z UID:10006323-1452794400-1452800700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alex Rivera DESCRIPTION:Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who\, for the past fifteen years\, has been telling new\, urgent\, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Alex is a Sundance Fellow\, Rockefeller Fellow\, was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University\, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In 2015 Alex was awarded major support from the Surdna Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his film-in-progress\, ‘The Infiltrators\,’ and he received an Art & Technology Lab Grant from LACMA for an upcoming project in virtual reality. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-rivera-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20150909T181112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T181112Z UID:10005127-1447353000-1447358400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading with California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz presents California’s Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young. \nAl Young\, born in Ocean Springs\, Mississippi\, is an American poet\, novelist\, essayist\, screenwriter\, and professor. In 2005\, he was named poet laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely translated\, Al Young’s twenty-two books include: poetry—Heaven\, The Sound of Dreams Remembered\, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons\, and Something About the Blues; fiction—Who Is Angelina?\, Sitting Pretty\, and Seduction by Light; essays—Jazz Idiom: The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson; anthologies—Yardbird Lives! (co-edited with Ishmael Reed)\, African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology\, and The Literature of California (with Jack Hicks\, James D. Houston\, and Maxine Hong Kingston); musical memoirs—Bodies & Soul\, Kinds of Blue\, Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman)\, and Drowning in the Sea of Love. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Essence\, The New York Times\, Chicago Review\, Seattle Review\, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature\, Chelsea\, Rolling Stone\, Gathering of the Tribes\, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature\, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. His honors include NEA\, Fulbright\, and Guggenheim Fellowships; the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction; the PEN/USA Award for Nonfiction; two Pushcart Prizes; two American Book Awards; the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence; and\, most recently\, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. \nOn the first Friday of each month\, he reads a freshly-composed poem during The California Report\,broadcast at San Francisco’s NPR-affiliate KQED. A teaching veteran (Stanford\, UC Santa Cruz\, University of Michigan\, Colorado College\, University of Washington\, Rice\, University of Arkansas\, Davidson College)\, he currently holds seminars in imaginative writing and creativity at California College of the Arts\, San Francisco. Love Offline\, a new poem collection\, awaits publication. In the 1970s and 80s\, Young wrote screenplays for Sidney Poitier\, Bill Cosby\, and Richard Pryor. Learn more about this versatile Berkeley-based author at www.AlYoung.org \n\n  \nIn conjunction with the Living Writers Series Fall 2015. \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sixth-annual-morton-marcus-memorial-poetry-reading-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-Poster-for-Internet-Al-Young.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141002T192016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141002T192016Z UID:10005854-1426183200-1426189500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD DESCRIPTION:To end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series\, a selected student TBD will present their work. \n  \n\n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading-tbd-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150305T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150305T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T202419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T202419Z UID:10004973-1425578400-1425584700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Maceo Montoya DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Maceo Montoya in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nMaceo Montoya grew up in Elmira\, California. He graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Columbia University in 2006. His paintings\, drawings\, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. Montoya’s first novel\, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review\, 2010)\, was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for “Best First Book” and Latino Stories named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” In 2014\, University of New Mexico Press published his second novel\, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza\, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother\, a hybrid book combining images\, prose poems\, and essays. \nMontoya is an assistant professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches the Chicana/o Mural Workshop and courses in Chicano Literature. He is also affiliated with Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA)\, a community-based arts organization located in Woodland\, CA. \n\n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-maceo-montoya-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150226T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T202016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T202016Z UID:10004972-1424973600-1424979900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Anita Hill DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Anita Hill in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nIn 1991\, Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee\, Judge Clarence Thomas. After the hearings\, Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about how to build on the great strides of women’s and civil rights struggles. In 1997\, Ms. Hill published her autobiography\, Speaking Truth to Power\, in which she chronicles the events of the Clarence Thomas confirmation and in 2011 Ms. Hill published her second book\, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender\, Race\, and Finding Home. Ms. Hill is the subject of a 2013 documentary film\, Anita\, which chronicles her experiences during the Clarence Thomas confirmation. \nIn her work\, Ms. Hill presents concrete proposals that encourage us to extend our vision of equality to include more than legal rights. Her goal is to encourage creative\, equitable and positive resolution of race\, gender and class issues. \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-anita-hill-2/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T201506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T201506Z UID:10004971-1424368800-1424375100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: John Jota Leanos DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents John Jota Leanos in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nJohn Jota Leaños is an award-winning Chicano new media artist using animation\, documentary and performance focusing on the convergence of memory\, social space and decolonization. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival\, the Morelia International Film Festival\, Mexico\, San Francisco International Festival of Animation\, the KOS Convention ’07\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego. Leaños has also exhibited at the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nLeaños is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film (2012)\, Creative Capital Foundation Grantee and has been an artist in residence at the University of California\, Santa Barbara in the Center for Chicano Studies\, Carnegie Mellon University in the Center for Arts in Society\, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Leaños is currently an Associate Professor of Social Documentary at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-john-jota-leanos-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150212T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T201106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T201106Z UID:10005830-1423764000-1423770300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Luis Alfaro DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Luis Alfaro in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nLuis Alfaro is a Chicano writer and performer known for his work in poetry\, theatre\, short stories\, performance and journalism. He is also a producer and director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer\, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative. \nHis work has been shown at venues including La Jolla Playhouse\, Smithsonian Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art in London\, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\, Magic Theatre\, Goodman Theatre-Chicago\, and Latino Chicago and Playwrights Arena in Los Angeles. His plays and performances includeOedipus el Rey\, Electricidad\, Downtown\, No Holds Barrio\, Body of Faith\, Straight as a Line\, Bitter Homes and Gardens\, Ladybird\, Black Butterfly\, and Breakfast\, Lunch & Dinner. \nHe teaches at the University of Southern California (in the Graduate Playwriting Program\, Solo Performance\, and Youth Theater) and California Institute of the Arts (in Solo Performance and Actors Studio). \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-luis-alfaro-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T200727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T200727Z UID:10005828-1423159200-1423165500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rigoberto Gonzalez DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Rigoberto Gonzalez in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nRigoberto González is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose\, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships\, winner of the American Book Award\, The Poetry Center Book Award\, The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America\, the Lambda Literary Award\, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine\, on the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark\, the State University of New Jersey. \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-rigoberto-gonzalez-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150129T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T200310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T200310Z UID:10005826-1422554400-1422560700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chinchilla DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nMaya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual non-exclusive publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chinchilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-korimar-press-lorenzo-herrea-y-lozano-maya-chincilla-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150122T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150122T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T195625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T195625Z UID:10005824-1421949600-1421955900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nVerónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles\, California. She earned her BA from California State University\, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas\, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. Her poems give voice to all her communities: Chicanas/os\, immigrants\, Mexicanas/os\, and la jotería. Reyes has won AWP’s Intro-Journal Project\, an Astraea Lesbian Foundation Emerging Artist award\, and was a Finalist for Andrés Montoya Poetry award. Her work has appeared in Calyx\, Feminist Studies\, ZYZZYZVA\, The New York Quarterly\, Ms. Magazine (Online)\, and The Minnesota Review. She is a proud member of Macondo Writers’ Workshop. \nHer first poetry book\, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives (Arktoi Books\, an imprint of Red Hen Press 2013)\, has won Best Poetry from International Latino Book Awards 2014\, Best Poetry from Golden Crown Literary Society Awards 2014\, Goldie award\, and was a Finalist for Lesbian Poetry from Lambda Literary Awards 2014. \nJavier O. Huerta is the author of Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007)\, which received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine\, and American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012). His poems have recently been anthologized in American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011\, and Everyman’s Library Art and Artists: Poems. He lives in Berkeley\, California. \n  \nWinter 2015 Living Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-veronica-reyes-javier-huerta-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150115T194500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20141001T194937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T194937Z UID:10005822-1421344800-1421351100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Cherrie Moraga DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Cherrie Moraga in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nCherríe L. Moraga is playwright\, poet\, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition and is a recipient of The American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. \nMoraga has premiered and developed her work at theatres throughout San Francisco. Brava’s production of “Heroes and Saints” in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script\, including the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her most recent play\, NEW FIRE—To Put Things Right Again\, a collaboration with visual artist\, Celia Herrera Rodríguez\, had its world premiere at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in January 2012. \nMoraga has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University and currently also shares a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. She teaches Creative Writing\, Chicano/Latino and Indigenous Studies\, and Playwriting. \n\n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-cherrie-moraga-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141204T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140930T192808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140930T192808Z UID:10005798-1417708800-1417715100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Katie Crouch DESCRIPTION:Katie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks\, Men and Dogs\, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults\, and has contributed to The London Guardian\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Slate\, Salon and Glamour. She has a regular column on The Rumpus called “Missed”. A MacDowell Fellow and alumnae of Brown University and the Columbia MFA program\, Katie lives with her family in Bolinas\, California. \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-katie-crouch-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141120T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140929T202920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T202920Z UID:10005794-1416499200-1416505500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, & Karen Joy Fowler DESCRIPTION:Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories\, Stranger Things Happen\, Magic for Beginners\, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas\, a Hugo\, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami\, Florida\, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question “Why do you want to go around the world?” (“Because you can’t go through it.”) \nLink and her family live in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where she and her husband\, Gavin J. Grant\, run Small Beer Press\, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below\, Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Salt\, and Antarctica–for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program. He lives in Davis\, California. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Clubspent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel\, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and five grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-kelly-link-kim-stanley-robinson-karen-joy-fowler-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140929T201949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T201949Z UID:10005792-1415894400-1415900700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace DESCRIPTION:Patrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL\, and a teacher of other poets\, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester\, New York (one of two American universities\, along with Gallaudet\, where sign is the official language). Graybill’s work is an important influence on later generations of ASL poets. \nAaron Brace has been interpreting for over 30 years\, primarily as a community and conference interpreter and also for six years as a designated interpreter for a university professor. He credits Patrick Graybill\, Ted Supalla\, and the Deaf communities of Rochester\, NY and the San Francisco Bay Area for making him the interpreter he is today. While it’s debatable whether he deserves his reputation\, it’s absolutely true that he hasn’t always. \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-patrick-graybill-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141106T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140929T200722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T200722Z UID:10005790-1415289600-1415295900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Helene Wecker DESCRIPTION:Helene Wecker grew up in Libertyville\, Illinois\, a small town north of Chicago\, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating\, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love\, fiction writing. Accordingly\, she moved to New York to pursue a Master’s in fiction at Columbia University. \nShe now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. Her first novel\, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI\, was published in 2013 by HarperCollins. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-helene-wecker-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141030T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140929T200225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T200225Z UID:10005788-1414684800-1414691100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Tobias Wolff DESCRIPTION:Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School\, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army\, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs\, Back in the World\, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories\, Our Story Begins\, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award – both for excellence in the short story – the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories\, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories\, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, and other magazines and literary journals. \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tobias-wolff-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140929T192836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T192836Z UID:10005786-1414080000-1414086300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Andrew Lam & Kate Gale DESCRIPTION:Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media\, an association of over three thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, the Chicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. Birds of Paradise Lost is his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco. \nDr. Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press\, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of theAmerican Composers Forum\, LA. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry\, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation\, the School of Arts and Humanities of Claremont Graduate University and Poetry Society of America. \nShe is author of six books of poetry (her most recent\, The Goldilocks Zone\, University of New Mexico Press)\, a novel Lake of Fire\, and six librettos including Rio de Sangre\, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. \nKate lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-andrew-lam-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T174500 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140910T203636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140910T203636Z UID:10004950-1412870400-1412876700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ariel Gore DESCRIPTION:Ariel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest\, The End of Eve\, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nShe’s also edited half a dozen anthologies\, including Breeder (Seal Press)\, The People’s Apocalypse (Lit Star Press)\, and the LAMBDA-award winning Portland Queer (Lit Star Press). \nAriel lives in Oakland\, California\, and teaches online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ariel-gore-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T191729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T191729Z UID:10004908-1400176800-1400184000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod DESCRIPTION:Mark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books\, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales\, The Apotheosis of Aaron\, and Borges’ Travel\, Hemingway’s Garage; two books on screenwriting\, Aspects of the Screenplay and Character & Conflict: Cornerstones of Screenwriting; and a book on adaptation\, I Read It At The Movies. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-mark-axelrod-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T190640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T190640Z UID:10004906-1399575600-1399579200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing) DESCRIPTION:Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: \nUrsula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels\, children’s books\, and short story\, poetry and essay collections\, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories;Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.  \nNote: this event will begin at 7:00 p.m.\, and will be a simulcast of a live talk. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \nMore info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ursula-le-guin-live-at-the-rio-theater-with-live-feed-to-hum-hall-in-concert-with-conference-anthropocene-arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet-hosted-by-anna-tsing-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T190233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T190233Z UID:10004904-1398967200-1398974400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also\, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar) DESCRIPTION:Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography\, Fault Lines; two novels\, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation\, a collection of essays.  \nRoshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas\, Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War\, and La china poblana. \n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-meena-alexander-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T185019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T185019Z UID:10004902-1398362400-1398369600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers\, taught by Carolyn Dunn) DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, most recently How We Became Human\, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books\, most recently Crazy Brave\, A Memoir; two children’s books\, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings\, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-joy-harjo-in-support-of-uc-pres-chair-sponsored-course-american-indian-feminist-writers-taught-by-carolyn-dunn-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T184505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T184505Z UID:10004900-1397757600-1397764800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival DESCRIPTION:Annie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry\, as well as two poetry collections\, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles. \n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-annie-boutelle-in-concert-with-cowell-colleges-mary-holmes-festival-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140124T183754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T183754Z UID:10004898-1397152800-1397160000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine DESCRIPTION:Rabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I\, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv\, a collection of short stories.\n\n\n\n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-rabih-alameddine-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T210037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T210037Z UID:10005596-1394733600-1394740800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nCurrent UCSC creative writing students read from work they produced during winter quarter. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-8-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T205553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T205553Z UID:10005595-1394128800-1394136000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nNovelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University\, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her debut story collection\, The UnAmericans\, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W.W. Norton. She is a recipient of the 2013 ‘5 Under 35’ Award from the National Book Foundation and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s This American Life and in many publications\, including One Story\, Ecotone\, American Short Fiction\, Glimmer Train\, Esquire and Mississippi Review Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel\, The After Party\, which will also be published by Norton. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-7-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T205245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T205245Z UID:10005584-1393524000-1393531200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Poets DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nSesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Local readings are archived at www.sicklyseason.com. He is collaborates with artist Arturo Romo-Santillano and other writers on the website\, www.ELAguide.org. His most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook. \nAngel Dominguez writes things. Originally from Los Angeles\, he received his BA in Poetry from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding editor of the Omni Writers Collective Press\, the co-founding editor of TRACT / TRACE: an investigative journal\, and presently the senior editor for the Bombay Gin literary journal. His work has appeared in The Bombay Gin\, Omni Symposium vol.1\, and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review. Most recently he completed an interview chapbook TIME-SCAPING with Mary Burger\, published by Pinball Press. Now residing in Boulder Colorado\, he is exploring the sentence and what it is for. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-6-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T204704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T204704Z UID:10004882-1391709600-1391716800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nZoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings\, Salon\, Two Serious Ladies\, and elsewhere. \nElizabeth 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. \nDaniel 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. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-4-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T203738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T203738Z UID:10004881-1391104800-1391112000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nFantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review\, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards\, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award\, and in 2010\, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection\, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST\, PRESENT AND FUTURE\, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September. \nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures\, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic\, and the autobiographical one-shot\, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell\, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback\, Burn the Orphanage. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T203333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T203333Z UID:10004880-1390500000-1390507200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nWriter/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames\, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool\, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself\, the story collection This Too Can Be Yours\, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on stage and video projects. They have performed at Dixon Place\, UCB Theatre\, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest\, Frameline\, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo\, Brasil. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T193531 CREATED:20140110T202450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T202450Z UID:10004879-1389290400-1389297600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nNovelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies\, for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book\, The Distance Between Us\, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as“the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience\,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-9/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR