Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. and writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts,  and UC Santa Cruz. He has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His works, Atomik Aztex and World […]

A one-day conference at the University of California Santa Cruz Sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies & Urban Studies Research Cluster The right to the city is…far more than a right of individual access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after […]

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in The Southeast Review, Shampoo, and/or, Dark Sky Magazine, etc. Her chapbook, Cleaving, won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007, and her first poetry book was published in November by Evening Street Press.  She works as a Lecturer of literature and creative […]

Emily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press,) is available through SPD. 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2, chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize, is forthcoming early next year. Until then, you can read Emily’s work in magazines like Prairie Schooner, Caketrain, Fourteen Hills, […]

 Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here and a memoir, Pagan Time. She has published short stories in ZYZZYVA, Massachusetts Review, The Best Underground Fiction and many others. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she has been the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation for the […]

As part of the Living Writers Series, Literature and Creative Writing Professor Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her novel, I Hotel; Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award, Fiction. There will also be conversations with: • Allan Kornblum, publisher for Coffee House Press • Sina Grace, illustrator of I Hotel and UCSC Creative Writing […]

Earll Kingston, a fourth generation Californian, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0" and "Magnum P.I.". From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed "Down The Great Unknown" at the Grand Canyon […]

The University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents In Collaboration with UCSC's Living Writers Reading Series: A Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong   Monique Truong is the author of the "poetically rendered and literally savory" 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who […]