Craft Between Worlds About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. […]

Craft Between Worlds James Janko is an award-winning author of four novels, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo, The Clubhouse Thief, What We Don't Talk About, and The Wire-Walker. His work is deeply informed by his experience as a combat medic in the Vietnam War, often probing the intertwined violences of war and environmental destruction. Janko […]

Craft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound,” posing subversive questions about the body, motherhood, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. […]

Craft Between Worlds Rosie Stockton is a poet and scholar, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025). In Fuel, Stockton explores how capitalist extraction seeps into intimate life, traversing oil fields, domestic spaces, and painful retractions of love. Stockton is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women […]

Craft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1988, Acevedo holds a master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is […]

Wonder as the Source About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the […]

Wonder as the Source Issa Quincy is a British writer. He spent spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and been anthologized by New Rivers Press. His fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Quincy's debut novel, Absence, is a haunting atmospheric exploration […]

Wonder as the Source Ariel Gore is an author, editor, and teacher. She makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest, Hexing the Patriarchy, is out from from Seal Press. […]

Wonder as the Source Aracelis Girmay is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (2016), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and Teeth (2007). She was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2011 Girmay was […]

Wonder as the Source Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a […]