University
of California - Santa Cruz 
Spring 2004 Living Writers Reading Series
presented by the Creative Writing Program and sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research,
the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the Department of Literature, and Poets & Writers.
All readings are free, and open to the public.
(click on colored dots for links to each author's work on-line)
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Poetry Reading: MATTHEW ZAPRUDER Wednesday April 7, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Matthew Zapruder was born in 1967 in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. in Russian Literature from Amherst College, an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the editor of Verse Press, teaches poetry at the New School, and plays guitar for The Figments. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Boston Review, Fence, Crowd, Jubilat, Both, The Harvard Review, and The New Yorker. He is also the co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu. His first book of poems, American Linden, was published by Tupelo Press in 2002. Matthew will also be giving a reading on Tuesday, April 6 at Bookshop Santa Cruz, with poet John Balaban, in conjunction with Poetry Santa Cruz. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Kresge College Creative Writing Lounge from 4-4:45pm.
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Poetry Reading: NATASHA SAJE Wednesday April 14, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150
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Natasha Saje was born in Germany and grew up in New York City and northern New Jersey. Her first book of poems Red Under the Skin (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994), was the winner of the Agnes Lynch Starett Prize. Her most recent book of poems, Bend, was published by Tupelo Press in 2003. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, New Republic, The Southern Review, Parnassus, Shenandoah, and The Writers Chronicle. She teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and in the Vermont College MFA in Writing program. Natasha will also be giving a reading on Tuesday, April 13 at Bookshop Santa Cruz, with poet Frances Payne Adler, in conjunction with Poetry Santa Cruz. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Kresge College Creative Writing Lounge from 4-4:45pm.
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Non-Fiction Reading: MICAH PERKS Wednesday April 21, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150
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Micah
Perks received her M.F.A. in fiction from Cornell University in
1990. She has published a memoir, Pagan Time: An American
Childhood (Counterpoint Press, 2001), and a novel, We Are
Gathered Here (St. Martin's Press, 1996). Her stories have been
published in literary quarterlies and anthologies, including Epoch,
Southwest Review, and Anyone is Possible: An Anthology of New
American Short Fiction, and have been nominated for the Pushcart
Prize. She grew up on a commune in the
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Fiction Reading: PETER ORNER Monday April 26, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Peter Orner is the author of Esther Stories, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Southern Review, Bomb, North American Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, and other periodicals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories 2001, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. He holds both an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a degree in law. He has served as a public defender in Massachusetts, has taught law in Prague, lectured in legal studies at U.C. Santa Cruz, and has lived in Namibia. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm. (This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.)
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Fiction Reading: LYSLEY TENORIO Monday May 3, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Lysley Tenorio was born in the Philippines and grew up in San Diego. He has published stories in journals and anthologies including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The Chicago Tribune, and the Best New American Voices 2001. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Oregon. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships--the Nelson Algren Award, a Stegner Fellowship, the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship, the George Bennett Fellowship and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. He has taught creative writing at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, the Phillips Exeter Academy, and the University of Oregon. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at St. Mary's College of California. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm. (This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.)
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Fiction Reading: MICHELLE RICHMOND Wednesday May 12, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Michelle Richmond completed her MFA in Fiction at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. Her debut story collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (U of Massachusetts, 2001), was selected for the prestigious Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and received high praise in the New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, and more. Since then she has published a novel, Dream of the Blue Room (MacAdam/Cage, 2003). Richmond has taught creative writing widely at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco, University of Miami, City College of San Francisco, and Academy of Arts College in San Francisco. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm. (This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.)
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Poetry Reading: SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Monday May 17, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Sean Thomas Dougherty is a former high school dropout and factory worker. He grew up in a racially mixed family with a mother of Jewish/Okie descent and an African-American stepfather. A nationally renowned performance poet, he is the author of six books of poetry, including The Biography of Broken Things (MitkiMitki Press, 2002), and Except by Falling (Pinyon Press, 2000). His most recent collection is Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Mammoth Press, 2004). He has appeared at numerous colleges and festivals including the Detroit Art Festival, the Connecticut Poetry Festival, Lollapalooza, L.A.'s Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Carnegie Mellon U, and was a keynote reader at the 2001 Race in the Humanities Conference. His work appears in anthologies including American Diaspora (2001 U of Iowa), American Poetry: Next Generation (2001 Carnegie Mellon), and Identity Lessons (1999 Viking Penguin). He teaches at Penn State Erie, where he is the Assistant Director of Creative Writing. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm.
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Fiction & Non-Fiction Reading: STEVE ALMOND Monday May 24, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Steve Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and Miami. His debut short-story collection, My Life in Heavy Metal, was published in April 2002 by Grove Press. His stories have appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, Tin House, Ploughshares, Book, The Southern Review, The Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, and other magazines. He has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Best New Stories from the South, Best of Zoetrope II, and Best American Erotica. Algonquin books will publish his next project, Candyfreak, a non-fiction book about obscure candy bars, in Spring 2004. His second short-story collection will follow in Spring 2005. His collaboration with Juliana Baggott, Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions, is also forthcoming from Algonquin. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm.
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Poetry Reading: QUAN BARRY Wednesday May 26, 2004 5:00 - 6:10 pm Stevenson 150 |
Quan Barry was born in Saigon, and raised on Boston's north shore. Her first book of poems, Asylum, won the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. Her poems have appeared in journals including The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review. Her second collection of poems, Controvertibles, is due out from the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2004. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Pre-reading author Q&A/Reception in the Stevenson College Silverman Lounge from 4-5pm. (This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.)
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