Visiting Writers Series

September 17: Muriel Leung

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Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster and several collections, including Bone Confetti, the 2022 Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm, and Images Seen to Images Felt in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop, Community of Writers, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, among others. She is on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal. Leung received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from USC where she was also the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing program at CalArts.

October 8: Rob Davidson

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Rob Davidson is the author of six books, including Welcome Back to the World: A Novella and Stories. His fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Normal School, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. His honors include a Fulbright award, an AWP Intro Journals Project Award in fiction, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Twice appointed Artist in Residence at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Davidson has led workshops at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, the Anderson Island Writing Retreat, the Redding Writers Forum, and other events. He teaches creative writing and American literature at CSU, Chico.

October 29: Camonghne Felix

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Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation, which was hailed by TIME magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat, was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, Freeman’s Journal, and elsewhere. Her essays have been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and Teen Vogue. Felix’s next full-length work, Let the Poets Govern, is forthcoming from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She is a Professor of Writing at The New School.

December 3: Esteban Rodríguez

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Esteban Rodríguez is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently The Lost Nostalgias. His work has appeared in the New England Review, Seneca Review, Colorado Review, Adroit Journal, Poetry Daily, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the interviews editor for the EcoTheo Review, senior book review editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and associate poetry editor for AGNI. With Jennifer De Leon and Ben Black, Rodríguez coedited To Never Have Risked Our Lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing. He lives in south Texas.