Creative Writing

Joy Harjo

Performer, Writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 22, 2020.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling and histories, as well as feminist and social justice poetic traditions, and frequently incorporates indigenous myths, symbols, and values into her writing. Her poetry inhabits landscapes—the Southwest, Southeast, but also Alaska and Hawaii—and centers around the...

Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate

April 22, 2020
Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

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Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Interdisciplinary Artist
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a grad­uate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design for...

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator
Raquel Gutiérrez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Public Art/Housing Publics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and...

Amanda Gunn

Poet, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and PhD Candidate in English at Harvard
Amanda Gunn gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine. Her debut collection, Things I Didn’t...

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford
Mark Greif gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2017.

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Philip Kan Gotanda was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. Gotanda has specialized in investigating the Japanese American family, writing a...

Caroline Goodwin

Professor, Poet, Former Stegner fellow
Caroline Goodwin gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Caroline Goodwin moved from Sitka, Alaska to the San Francisco Area to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry in 1999. Her most recent collections are Old Snow, White Sun (JackLeg Press, 2021), Madrigals (Big Yes Press, 2021), and Matanuska (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK, 2022). She lives on the San Mateo coast and teaches at the California College of the Arts, Stanford Continuing Studies, and UC Berkeley Extension. From...

Clement Goldberg

2016 ARC Fellow
Clement Goldberg was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Clement Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a...

Aracelis Girmay

Poet, Professor of English at Stanford University
Aracelis Girmay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2023.

Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies.

In her 2011 online chat interview with the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, Girmay discussed innovative and hybrid poetric forms, stating, “I wonder what new explorations of form might have to do with documenting the new...