UCSD New Writing Series

05/08/2019

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from the MFA ALUMNI. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, MAY 8TH at 5:00 pm in the de Certeau Room at the Literature Building.

Paola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press, 2018). She earned her BS in Magazine Journalism from Syracuse University, an MA in English from UC Davis, and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC San Diego. Her poems have appeared in The Volta, Poetry Society of America, Academy of American Poets, NightBlock, and others. She is the co-founder/editor of the literary/arts journal littletell, alongside Maria Flaccavento. Originally from San Juan, PR, she now lives in San Diego, CA, where she teaches 12th grade English.

Keith McCleary is a writer and graphic designer from New York. He is the author of the graphic novels KILLING TREE QUARTERLY and TOP OF THE HEAP, as well as the co-author, with Sophia Starmack, of the audio novella THE GOTHICKERS. His work has appeared in Heavy Metal, A capella Zoo, and Weave, among other places, and he is co-editor of the STATES OF TERROR horror anthology series from Ayahausca Publishing. He is also the Comics Curator at Entropy. Keith holds an MFA from UC San Diego, where he teaches on composition and comics. His first novel, CIRCUS AND THE SKIN, was published in December 2018 by Kraken Press.

Hanna Tawater is the author of Reptilia (Ayahuasca Publishing, 2018), and completed her MFA in writing with an emphasis in interdisciplinary poetry at UC San Diego in 2014. Some of her work can be found in Pacific Review, The Mondegreen, Dirty Chai, New Delta Review, White Stag, Black Candies: Gross and Unlikable, The Radvocate, States of Terror vols. 1 & 2, and Amor Forense: Birds in Shorts City an anthology of border-region translations, as well as various online collaborative projects. She currently serves as the Book Reviews editor at Entropy.

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02/19/2019

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from KATE BERNHEIMER. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

Kate Bernheimer is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. Her recent novella, Office at Night, co-authored with Laird Hunt, was a finalist for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona where she teaches creative writing and courses on transnational fairy tales and fairy-tale aesthetics. Her nonfiction has appeared such places as The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, and The New York Times. With her brother, Andrew Bernheimer (Assistant Professor, Parsons/The New School & principal, Bernheimer Architecture), she is co-editor of Fairy Tale Architecture, an interdisciplinary series published by Places Journal.

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02/12/2019

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from RONALDO V. WILSON. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of four collections: Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, Poems of the Black Object, Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, and Lucy 72. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ford Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, the National Research Council, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Center for Art and Thought, and Yaddo, Wilson is a mixed media artist, dancer and performer, who has performed in multiple venues, including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, UC Riverside’s Artsblock, Georgetown’s Lannan Center, Dixon Place, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Louisiana State University’s Digital Media Center Theater. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz.

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01/28/2019

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from Vanessa Angélica Villareal. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

Vanessa Angélica Villareal was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017), winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, and featured as a best-of book at The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, BOMB, Literary Hub, Bustle, and Entropy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, The Academy of American Poets, BuzzFeed, Epiphany, PBS Newshour and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog.

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01/22/2019

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from ARI BANIAS. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

ARI BANIAS is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and as part of the M***A exhibition Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program. Ari works with small press books and teaches poetry in the Bay Area. His most recent chapbook, A Symmetry, was published by The Song Cave in 2018.

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11/26/2018

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from MARILYN CHIN. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

MARILYN CHIN was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. She is presently celebrating the launch of her new book A PORTRAIT OF THE SELF AS NATION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (W.W. Norton, 2018).

Marilyn Chin’s other books of poems include HARD LOVE PROVINCE, RHAPSODY IN PLAIN YELLOW, DWARF BAMBOO, and THE PHOENIX GONE, THE TERRACE EMPTY. Her book of wild girl fiction is called REVENGE OF THE MOONCAKE VIXEN.

She has won numerous awards, including the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, the United States Artist Foundation Award, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, two NEAs, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, a Lannan Fellowship and others.

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11/13/2018

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from MANUEL PAUL LÓPEZ. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

MANUEL PAUL LÓPEZ'S books include These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, 1984 (Amsterdam Press, 2010) and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works Press, 2016). A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Huizache, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.

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10/24/2018

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from PIERRE JORIS. The reading will take place THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25TH at 5:00 pm in PEPPER CANYON HALL, 122.

PIERRE JORIS has moved between Europe, the US & North Africa for some 50 years now, publishing as many books of poetry, essays, translations and anthologies—most recently, The Book of U /Le livre des cormorans (with Nicole Peyrafitte); The Agony of I.B. (a play); An Americaan Suite (early poems);Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012; and Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan. When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte.

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10/24/2018

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from SESSHU FOSTER. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH at 5:00 pm in the Seuss Room at Geisel Library.

SESSHU FOSTER'S novel, Atomik Aztex, won a 2006 Believer Magazine Award. Winner of two American Book Awards, he’s author of four books of poetry, co-editor of Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry, and co-translator of Akrilica, by Juan Felipe Herrera, former Poet Laureate of the United States. His latest book is City of the Future (2018, Kaya Press). Since 1985, he’s taught composition and literature in East Los Angeles, as well as creative writing at the University of Iowa, Pomona College, the California Institute of the Arts, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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10/10/2018

UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from JACKIE WANG. The reading will take place WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH at 5:00 pm in the Visual Arts Facilities, Performance Space 306.

JACKIE WANG is a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster, and PhD student at Harvard University. Her latest work, The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming is forthcoming at Robocup Press. In Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e)/Intervention, 2018), Wang examines contemporary incarceration techniques and illustrates various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory and algorithmic policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and cybernetic governance.

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10/14/2017