Professor Nathaniel Mackey

Humanities 1, room 628 •459-2051• mackey@ucsc.edu

National Book Award Winning Author of five chapbooks of poetry, Four for Trane (Golemics, 1978), Septet for the End of Time (Boneset, 1983), Outlantish (Chax Press, 1992), Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20 (Moving Parts Press, 1994) and Four for Glenn (Chax Press, 2002), and four books of poetry, Eroding Witness (University of Illinois Press, 1985), School of Udhra (City Lights Books, 1993), Whatsaid Serif (City Lights Books, 1998), and Splay Anthem. Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, a compact disc recording of poems read with musical accompaniment (Royal Hartigan, percussion; Hafez Modirzadeh, reeds and flutes), was released in 1995 by Spoken Engine Company. Author of an ongoing prose composition, From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, of which three volumes have been published: Bedouin Hornbook (Callaloo Fiction Series, 1986; second edition: Sun & Moon Press, 1997), Djbot Baghostus's Run (Sun & Moon Press, 1993) and Atet A.D. (City Lights Books, 2001). Editor of the literary magazine Hambone and coeditor (with Art Lange) of the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (Coffee House Press, 1993). Author of a book of critical essays, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (Cambridge University Press, 1993; paper edition: University of Alabama Press, 2000). He is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Associate Professor Micah Perks

Humanities 1, room 233 •459-4586• meperks@ucsc.edu

Micah Perks is the author of a novel, WE ARE GATHERED HERE (ST. Martin's , 1997) and a memoir PAGAN TIME (Counterpoint, 2001), which she wrote on a Saltonstall Grant. She has published short stories, in ZYZZYVA, MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, and many other journals and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has just finished another novel. Micah is also the co-Provost of Kresge College.

Professor Rob Wilson

Humanities 1, room 631 •459-2401• rwilson@ucsc.edu

Rob Wilson has published poems and reviews in Bamboo Ridge journal since 1979, and in various other journals from Tinfish, Taxi, Manoa, and Central Park to New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review and Poetry. He is a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review. He is at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Un/American Poetics, and still plays basketball, pool, and meditates (and prays), each day, in the great void of being and creative bliss. As Jack Kerouac put it in Dharma Bums, "Equally holy, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha!" His study "Henry, Torn From the Stomach: Towards a Poetics of Conversion & Counter-Conversion in the Postcolonial US Empire" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press; and a collection of cultural criticism from Asia/Pacific (co-edited with Christopher Leigh Connery) called Worldings: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization with New Pacific Press/ North Atlantic Books.

Professor Karen Tei Yamashita

Humanities 1, room 231 •459-2167• ktyamash@ucsc.edu

Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer from California. She lived for nine years in Brazil, the setting for her first two novels, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, published in 1990 and awarded the American Book Award and The Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, and Brazil-Maru, named by the Village Voice as one of the 25 best books of 1992. Her third novel set in Los Angeles, Tropic of Orange published in 1997, and was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. A fourth book of mix genres in fiction and nonfiction, Circle K Cycles, is based on her research of the Brazilian community in Japan and was published in the spring of 2001 by Coffee House Press. Currently, she is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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2009 - 2010 CREATIVE WRITING LECTURERS

Dion Farquhar (Winter 2010)

dnfarquhar@gmail.com

Dion Farquhar is a poet and prose fiction writer whose work has appeared in Epiphany, Rogue Scholars, LanguageandCulture.net, Poems Niederngasse, Perigee, The Argotist, AUGHT, Xcp: Streetnotes, City Works, boundary 2, Hawaii Review, Lip Service, American Letters and Commentary, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sulfur, etc. Her chapbook, Cleaving, won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007.

Andrea Quaid (Spring 2010)

aquaid@ucsc.edu

All forms of creative writing; experimental poetry and prose writing; hybrid; multi-genre writing; exploration of the connections between creative and critical writing.

Melissa Sanders-Self (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)

Humanities 1, room 238 •459-5261• Sanderself@gmail.com

Melissa Sanders-Self was born in Tennessee and currently resides with her husband and children in Santa Cruz, California. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received her BA with highest honors in Creative Writing and Literature. She produced and wrote the documentary film, Writing Women’s Lives. It aired nationally on PBS and is currently available from Films for the Humanities. She was awarded artist-residencies at both the Djerassi Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. She has previously published short fiction with New Rivers Press. All That Lives is her first novel. She is currently at work on a new novel The Stone Mother.

Gary Young (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)

Humanities 1, room 229 •459-5261• GYoungGRP@aol.com

Gary Young is a poet and artist whose books include Hands, The Dream of A Moral Life, Days, Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, and No Other Life, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. A new book, Pleasure, has just been released. Young has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in addition to other awards he has received a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He edits the Greenhouse Review Press, and his print work is represented in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Center for the Arts.

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Past Faculty / Lecturers: Charles O. Atkinson, Amra Brooks, Raymond Carver, Lucille Clifton, Karen Joy Fowler, Peter Gizzi, Ron Hansen, George Hitchcock, David Lau, Erika Meitner, Louis Owens, Kate Schatz, Priscilla (Tilly) Shaw, Elizabeth Stark, S. Page Stegner, David Swanger, Gerald Vizenor

Creative Writing Intern: cwintern@gmail.com

 

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