Creative Writing

Sophia Dahlin

Poet, Educator
Sophia Dahlin gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Sophia Dahlin is a poet in the East Bay, where she leads generative poetry workshops and teaches youth creative writing. With Jacob Kahn, she edits a small chapbook press called Eyelet. Her first book, Natch, was released in 2020 by City Lights Books.

Aruna D'Souza

Editor, Writer, Curator
Aruna D'Souza gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 21, 2018.

Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and she is a contributor to The New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Art News, Garage, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, Art in America, ...

Maxe Crandall

Poet, Playwright, Director, Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University
Maxe Crandall gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Maxe Crandall is Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. Maxe works at the intersections of transgender studies and experimental poetics and performance. His performance novel about AIDS archives and intergenerational memory The Nancy Reagan Collection (Futurepoem) was on the New York Public Library’s Best 10 Poetry Books of 2020, LitHub’s 65 Favorite Books of 2020, and was a...

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps

Kanaka ʻŌiwi Poet & Editor
Donovan Kūhiō Colleps gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 23, 2023.

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi poet and editor. His book of docu-poetry, Proposed Additions (Tinfish Press), was originally published in 2014. His recent work has appeared in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poets.org, and the Norton anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through.

Vethea Cerna Cole

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vethea Cerna Cole was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Vethea Cerna Cole is a queer, Filipinx writer, artist, and lover in their final year of pursuing a BA in Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research analyzes the intergenerational trauma passed between mothers who have emigrated from the Philippines and queer, trans, first generation children adapting to life in the settler colony that is the U.S. Centering decolonization in their art and scholarship, Vethea...

Catherine Cole

ARC Fellow and Professor of Dance and English at the University of Washington
Catherine M. Cole was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2024 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Catherine M. Cole is Professor of Dance and English at the University of Washington, where she served as Divisional Dean of the Arts from 2016-2022. Her book Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice(2020),on dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond, received a 2021 Special Citation for the Dance Studies...

Dillon Chitto

Spring 2023 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Playwright
Dillon Chitto was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in Spring 2023.

Dillon Chitto, (he/him) is an Indigenous playwright of Mississippi Choctaw, and Isleta and Laguna Pueblo descent. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico he grew up learning the importance of art, culture, and traditions. In his playwriting, he explores these ideas through the lens of comedy. He is presently based in Chicago, Illinois and is a company member of BoHo Theatre where he serves as literary manager. His first play Bingo Hall, developed by Native Voices at The Autry and...

최 Lindsay | Lindsay Choi

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Translator
최 Lindsay was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

최 Lindsay is a poet and translator working between English, Korean, and Swedish. They are the author of Transverse (Futurepoem, 2021), as well as a chapbook, Matrices (speCt! books, 2017). More of their work can be found in Omniverse, Aster(ix) Journal, and elsewhere, including a forthcoming sound piece for amatter. They are a...

Cianga

ARC Fellow and Artist
Cianga was an ARC Fellow in Spring & Fall 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Cianga (cha-nga) is a Congolese artist based in California, by way of South Africa. A recipient of the Cave Canem + EcoTheo’s Starshine & Clay Fellowship, Cianga creates interdisciplinary work that seeks to decolonize and disrupt language. They are currently an MFA candidate and have received residency and fellowship support from UC Berkeley’s Arts & Research Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Atlantic...

Jennifer S. Cheng

Poet
Jennifer S. Cheng gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Jennifer S. Cheng received her BA from Brown University, MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, and MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She is the author of: MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (2018), selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named a Publishers Weekly “Best Book of 2018”; House A (2016), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn...