Throughout each academic year, the Liberal Arts and Sciences department brings writers to campus to read from and speak about their work. These programs are free and open to the public. Review the Otis College events calendar to find upcoming Visiting Writers Series events.
All events begin at 4:00 p.m. PT, are held online, and are free of charge. Please register in advance by following the registration links. Once registered, you will receive an event invitation and link to admission.
2025 Events
Upcoming Events

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.
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- Salar Abdoh
- Daniel Alarcón
- Samina Ali
- Jane Alison
- Erik Anderson
- Michael Andreasen
- J. Reuben Appelman
- Rae Armantrout
- Ramona Ausubel
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- Luigi Ballerini
- Mary Jo Bang
- Ari Banias
- Amiri Baraka
- Tom Barbash
- Lou Beach
- Art Beck
- Philippe Beck
- Nicky Beer
- Bruce Bégout
- Aimee Bender
- Guy Bennett
- Nick Benson
- Marie-Helene Bertino
- Bill Berkson
- Kate Bernheimer
- Chaya Bhuvaneswar
- Venita Blackburn
- Dexter L. Booth
- Jenny Boully
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Melissa Broder
- F. Douglas Brown
- Jericho Brown
- Laynie Browne
- Riah Buchanan
- Shonda Buchanan
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- Peter Cameron
- Mary Caponegro
- Ron Carlson
- Beppe Cavatorta
- Ann Cefola
- Steph Cha
- Jai Chakhrabarti
- Jade Chang
- Victoria Chang
- Geneva Chao
- Ching-In Chen
- Neeli Cherkovski
- Susan Choi
- Gina Chung
- Aaron Philip Clark
- Jeff Clark
- Tiana Clark
- Zinzi Clemmons
- Joshua Clover
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Norma Cole
- Wanda Coleman
- Gillian Conoley
- Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Eleanor Cooney
- Bernard Cooper
- Lucy Corin
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Charmaine Craig
- Robert Crosson
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- John D'Agata
- Donna de la Perrière
- Mark Z. Danielewski
- Michael Davidson
- Yves Di Manno
- Ray DiPalma
- Timothy Donnelly
- Ben Doller
- Sandra Doller
- Dolores Dorantes
- Andre Dubus III
- Tananarive Due
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- Ben Ehrenreich
- Gilad Elbom
- Kenward Elmslie
- Lynn Emanuel
- Álvaro Enrigue
- Tim Erickson
- Steve Evans
- Percival Everett
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- Blas Falconer
- Avram Finkelstein
- Janet Fitch
- Fernando A. Flores
- Angela Flournoy
- Nick Flynn
- Sesshu Foster
- Tonya Foster
- David Francis
- Kathleen Fraser
- Emily Kendal Frey
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- Peter Gadol
- Amity Gaige
- Charles Gaines
- Malik Gaines
- Forrest Gander
- Cristina Garcia
- Polly Geller
- Lynell George
- Amy Gerstler
- C.S. Giscombe
- Renee Gladman
- Hal Glicksman
- Manuel Gonzalez
- Jaimy Gordon
- Amelia Gray
- torrin a. greathouse
- Garth Greenwell
- David Groff
- Olga Grushin
- Myriam Gurba
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- Katharine Haake
- James Hannaham
- Paul Harding
- Adam Haslett
- Brooks Hansen
- Michael Heller
- Jack Hirschman
- Jen Hofer
- Anselm Hollo
- Cathy Park Hong
- James Houston
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- Brenda Hillman
- Jean Chen Ho
- Harmony Holiday
- John Humble
- Christine Hume
- Samantha Hunt
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- Lawson Fusao Inada
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- David James
- Jenny Johnson
- Dennis Loy Johnson
- Devin Johnston
- Dana Johnson
- Mat Johnson
- Pierre Joris
- Michael Joyce
- Trevor Joyce
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- Bhanu Kapil
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Douglas Kearney
- John Keene
- Walter Kirn
- Alexandra Kleeman
- Norman Klein
- Jennifer L. Knox
- Bill Krohn
- Joshua Kryah
- Joanne Kyger
- Aaron Kunin
- Rachel Kushner
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- Paul La Farge
- Laila Lalami
- Ann Lauterbach
- Michelle Latiolais
- Joseph Lease
- Edan Lepucki
- Ben Lerner
- Jonathan Lethem
- Suzanne Jill Levine
- Robin Coste Lewis
- Anya Liftig
- Sandra Lim
- Paul Lisicky
- Sam Lipsyte
- Aimee Liu
- Timothy Liu
- Davon Loeb
- Michael Lowenthal
- Alvin Lu
- Lisa Lubasch
- Cassidy Lucas (Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger)
- Willem Henri Lucas
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- Carol Maier
- Lewis MacAdams
- Rebecca Makkai
- Barbara Maloutas
- Sarah Manguso
- Yves di Manno
- Anthony Marra
- Marisa Matarazzo
- Louise Mathias
- Courtney Maum
- Michael McClure
- Heather McGowan
- John McManus
- Joyelle McSweeney
- Maile Meloy
- Adam Michaels
- Lydia Millet
- Bill Mohr
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Dantiel W. Moniz
- Laura Moriarty
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Fred Moten
- Jennifer Moxley
- Harryette Mullen
- Laura Mullen
- Ryan Murphy
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- Sawako Nakayasu
- Maggie Nelson
- Monica Nepote
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Idra Novey
- Okezie Nwọka
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- Daniel A. Olivas
- Joseph O'Neill
- Wendy C. Ortiz
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- Ron Padgett
- Elio Pagliarani
- Michael Palmer
- Morgan Parker
- Christa Parravani
- Nicole Peyrafitte
- Sasha Pimentel
- Nick Piombino
- Ismet Prcic
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- Anna Qu
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- Emily Raboteau
- Claudia Rankine
- Tom Raworth
- Ishmael Reed
- Nina Revoyr
- Antonio Riccardi
- Karen Rigby
- Elizabeth Robinson
- Stephen Rodefer
- Luis J. Rodriguez
- Olivia Rosenthal
- Joe Ross
- Jerome Rothenberg
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- Alison Saar
- James Sallis
- Ari Samsky
- Hélène Sanguinetti
- Louise Sandhaus
- Janet Sarbanes
- Rakesh Satyal
- Leslie Scalapino
- Salvatore Scibona
- Joanna Scott
- Standard Schaefer
- Christine Schutt
- Barry Schwabsky
- Hubert Selby Jr.
- Danzy Senna
- Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Dani Shapiro
- Solmaz Sharif
- Prageeta Sharma
- Richard Shelton
- David Shields
- Mahtem Shiferraw
- Maggie Shipstead
- Aaron Shurin
- Eleni Sikelianos
- Marisa Silver
- Jake Skeets
- Jane Smiley
- Carmen Giménez Smith
- Ersi Sotiropoulos
- Rob Spillman
- Dana Spiotta
- Sister Spit
- Jane Sprague
- Kevin Starr
- Danika Stegeman
- David St. John
- Matt Sumell
- Halley Sutton
- Cole Swenson
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- Nathaniel Tarn
- Lysley Tenorio
- Chris L. Terry
- Joseph Earl Thomas
- Justin Torres
- David Treuer
- Monique Truong
- Frederic Tuten
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- David Ulin
- Deb Olin Unferth
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- Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
- Vickie Vértiz
- Cecilia Vicuna
- Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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- Catherine Wagner
- D.J. Waldie
- Jess Walter
- Diane Ward
- Esther Pearl Watson
- Juliana Wang
- Qian Julie Wang
- Marjorie Welish
- Lawrence Weschler
- Marianne Wiggins
- Antoine Wilson
- Allyssa Wolf
- Sholeh Wolpé
- CD Wright
- Gail Wronsky
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- Karen Tei Yamashita
- Tim Youd
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- Matthew Zapruder
- Ghassan Zeineddine
- Ofelia Zepeda
- Javier Zamora