Events
Creative Writing Program
Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren 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 […]
Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State University […]
Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration. In 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 […]
Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing 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 […]
Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOriginally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian […]
Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeif Haven Martinson is a writer, poet, and designer. His first book, Arcane Rituals From The Future, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by 1913 Press in 2016. He is currently the Lead Designer at Botanic Technologies, where he helps develop chatbots, voice assistants, and avatars. Previously, he developed […]
Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCourtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of […]
Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics […]
Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics […]
Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Living Writers, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's book, "The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and […]