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Living Writers Series Winter 2021

The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart, about writing about place, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times, and of course, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place.

Select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m.

Register for this FREE event series here.


January 14th: Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature, African literature, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia.

 


January 28th: K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com


 


February 4th: Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the author of five books, most recently Fates and Furies, a novel, and Florida, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award, has won the Story Prize and France's Grand Prix de L'héroïne, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her next novel, Matrix, is slated for publication by Riverhead in September 2021.

 


February 11th: Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My TeethTell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. 



February 25th Tess Taylor & Danusha Laméris

Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Misremembered World, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship, and The Forage House, called “stunning” by The San Francisco Chronicle. Work & Days was named one of The New York Times best books of poetry of 2016.  In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art as a part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition, and Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press, hailed as “brilliant” in the LA Times

Danusha Laméris’ first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry ReviewThe Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. She’s the author of Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), and the recipient of the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Danusha teaches poetry independently, and was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.



March 3rd: The Deep Read: Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange, There There, is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California.


 

Olondria By Sofia Samatar Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781931520768
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Published: Small Beer Press - April 30th, 2013

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The Winged Histories By Sofia Samatar Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781618731371
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Published: Small Beer Press - April 25th, 2017

Monster Portraits By Sofia Samatar, del Samatar (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Sofia Samatar, del Samatar (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9781941628102
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(Please note: This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Rose Metal Press - February 22nd, 2018

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Bestiary: A Novel By K-Ming Chang Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593132586
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Published: One World - September 29th, 2020

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Fates and Furies: A Novel By Lauren Groff Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781594634482
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 13th, 2016

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Lost Children Archive: A novel By Valeria Luiselli Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780525436461
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Published: Vintage - February 4th, 2020

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9781566894951
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Published: Coffee House Press - April 4th, 2017

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The Story of My Teeth By Valeria Luiselli, Christina Macsweeney (Translator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781566894098
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Published: Coffee House Press - September 15th, 2015

Faces in the Crowd By Valeria Luiselli, Christina Macsweeney (Translator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781566893541
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Published: Coffee House Press - May 13th, 2014

Sidewalks By Valeria Luiselli, Christina Macsweeney (Translator), Cees Nooteboom (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Valeria Luiselli, Christina Macsweeney (Translator), Cees Nooteboom (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9781566893565
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Published: Coffee House Press - May 13th, 2014

Rift Zone By Tess Taylor Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781597097765
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Published: Red Hen Press - April 7th, 2020

Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange By Dorothea Lange (Photographer), Tess Taylor Cover Image
By Dorothea Lange (Photographer), Tess Taylor
$12.95
ISBN: 9781633451094
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Published: Museum of Modern Art - February 25th, 2020

Work and Days By Tess Taylor Cover Image
$11.95
ISBN: 9781597097321
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Published: Red Hen Press - April 8th, 2016

The Forage House By Tess Taylor Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781597092708
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Published: Red Hen Press - August 20th, 2013

Bonfire Opera: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) By Danusha Lameris Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780822966050
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - February 25th, 2020

The Moons of August By Danusha Lameris Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781932870954
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Published: Autumn House Press - January 1st, 2014

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There There By Tommy Orange Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2019