Events
Humanities Lecture Hall
Events at this venue
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Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence, BOMB, Aufgabe, and the art journal Parkett, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press, and lives in Los Angeles. More information about Jess Arndt is available here
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Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work.
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Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest, (Dzanc Books, July 2019), and of Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Permafrost, Joyland, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently, her microfiction, flash fiction, […]
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Living Writers: “After Ursula” with Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Nisi Shawl, and Kim Stanley Robinson
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAfter Ursula: Four renowned Sci Fi/Fantasy Writers all mentored by Ursula K Le Guin read from their work. Molly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic […]
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CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the […]
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Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesR. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage, and Leche (Coffee House Press), as well as four poetry collections, most recently, Pop Vérité, […]
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Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university's history of […]
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Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement - San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec, Mayan cultural roots, as well as urban, and multi-cultural and spoken word, jazz styles on community […]
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Living Writers: Steven Church
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSteven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He's a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as […]
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Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective.