ARC Fellow

Gisselle Medina

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Gisselle Medina’s identity consists of multitudes—a Latine, queer, non-binary from Los Angeles. They are a poet, visual artist and journalist in their final year as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. In Medina’s scholarship, they investigate the history of literature and intertwine various methods and theories into literary and cultural analysis. In their poetry, Medina writes fiercely about their restless past and our collective world, in hopes to inspire and transcend anyone willing to listen. Medina inspires to be an investigative reporter for...

Reclamation Poetry Gathering

February 15, 2024
Reclamation Poetry Gathering February 15 – 18, 2024 Public Programming: February 16 – 17, 2024

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...

List of ARC Fellows

List of ARC Fellows from 2009 through 2024

Beth Piatote

ARC Director, 2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry and the Senses

Beth Piatote is a creative writer, playwright, and scholar. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. The Beadworkers was named the winner of the 2020 Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. Her full-length play...

Noah Warren

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Noah Warren is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon, 2021) and The Destroyer in the Glass (Yale, 2016). His honors include the Yale Series of Younger Poets and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and his poems appear in The Paris Review, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. At Berkeley, his research traces the pervasive influence of natural history and its classificatory logic in nineteenth century America, investigating how these structure practices of observation, encourage anti-progressivism, and subtend the...

Marisa Lin

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Marisa Lin is a daughter of Chinese immigrants and Minnesota native. Her first training in poetry was through western classical music. A 2023 Roots Wounds Words Poetry Fellow, Marisa is an alum of the VONA, Kenyon Review, and Community of Writers workshops. You can find her work at Poetry South, Porter House Review, The Racket, and elsewhere. She is pursuing a Master’s Degree of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and in her free time enjoys hiking, petting cats, and writing random letters to friends.

Marisa was an ARC Fellow in...

Chris Hoshnic

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Chris Hoshnic is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his B.A. in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Shore Scripts. In 2022, he was a Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI). He was a Special Projects Intern for Thousand Languages Project and...

Ayling Zulema Dominguez

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator rooted in a poetics of anticolonial imagination. Their art and poetry ask who we are at our most free and what it might take to arrive there. Lyricality and reclamation of historically silenced voices and experiences inform their writing and artistry, as does abundance and collective care. They were a 2023 Prufer Poetry Prize Finalist, and received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize. They are an active mentee in the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program....

IPL Fellowship

Art of Revitalization: Fellowships for Indigenous & Endangered Languages

Pa Vue

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Pa Vue (she / her / nws) works to reclaim Hmong language, culture, and knowledge. She writes to explore the connection between literacy, language, and creativity. Her writing draws from paj huam, a traditional Hmong spoken poetry, and Hmoob kev hu plig, Hmong soul calling practices. Visit her on Instagram