Living Writers Series Fall 2024
Most Thursdays, 5:20 - 6:50 PM
Humanities 1 Lecture Hall
10/10 Julián Delgado Lopera
10/17 Stacey D'Erasmo
10/24 Carolina Ixta
12/5 Student Reading
These events are free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Thursday, 11/7, 6:00 pm - 7:30 PM
Cultural Center at Merrill
Ellen Bass, Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
This event is free to attend, but registration is required.
Register here: https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ellen-bass-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
Theme: Growing Things
~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~
October 10
Julián Delgado Lopera
Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times-acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Julián's received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts, Black Mountain Institute, Creative Work Fund, Hedgebrook, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating Latinx history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. Watch their TED Talk Here.
October 17
Stacey D'Erasmo
Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, Wonderland, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Interview, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012. She is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC.
October 24
Carolina Ixta
Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her Master's degree in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up, This is Serious is her debut novel.
November 7
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
