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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?” She’s also edited half a dozen anthologies, including […]

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 […]

Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: Ursula 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 […]

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.  Roshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People […]

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. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will […]