Creative Writing

Rebecca Gaydos

2011 ARC Fellow
Rebecca Gaydos was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Rebecca Gaydos was born in Santa Barbara, California, where her mother and father worked as professional ballet dancers. At UC Berkeley, she won the Eisner Prize in Poetry and earned her Ph.D. in English. She has taught literature and writing at Diablo Valley College, San Quentin State Prison, and UC Berkeley. Currently, in addition to writing poetry, she is editing an unpublished novella by poet Larry Eigner and completing a scholarly book on the significance of...

Ross Gay

Poet, Essayist
Ross Gay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 17, 2021.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley...

Malik Gaines

Associate Professor at NYU Tisch
Malik Gaines was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Malik Gaines is a writer and artist involved with performances.

His articles have appeared in Women & Performance and Art Journal, and in magazines including Artforum. Gaines has written many essays for museum books, about artists including the Judson Dance Theater, Lorraine O’Grady, Senga Nengudi, Pope.L, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ed Bereal,...

Gloria Frym

Poet, Fiction Writer, Professor at California College of the Arts Graduate Writing Program
Gloria Frym gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Gloria Frym is a poet and fiction writer. Her collection of essays, How Proust Ruined My Life, was published by BlazeVox Books in 2020. Her other books include The True Patriot, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015); The Stage Stop Motel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014); Mind Over Matter (BlazeVOX books, 2011); Any Time Soon (...

Vievee Francis

Poet, Professor of Poetry & Poetics at Dartmouth College
Vievee Francis gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2023.

Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year.

Francis is the author of The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023); Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and ...

Jennifer Foerster

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

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, The Maybe Bird (The Song Cave, 2022), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and Leaving Tulsa (University of Arizona Press, 2013), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W...

Courtney Fink

Former Executive Director of Southern Exposure, Organizer, Arts Advocate, Curator, Writer
Courtney Fink was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014. Courtney Fink (she/her) works in the expanded field of nonprofit leadership as a steadfast champion of visual artists and the organizations that center and support them. Her hybrid practice merges creative process with strategic implementation and is informed by responsive open source frameworks as models for exchange, connection, collaboration, and shared experience. Fink’s mission is to establish equitable access to...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet, Painter, Social Activist, Co-Founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 8, 2017.

Poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father, an Italian immigrant, had shortened the family name upon arrival in America. When Ferlinghetti discovered the lengthier name as an adult, he took it as his own. He had a tumultuous youth, parts of which were spent in France, an orphanage in Chappaqua, New York, and in the mansion of the wealthy Bisland family in Bronxville,...

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Elizabeth Zhiying Feng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng is a visual artist, writer, and programmer from the Bay Area. Elizabeth is a second year Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at Berkeley. She creates visual poetry that combines writing with elements of photography, typography, cinematography, and composition. She’s also interested in new media, immersive computing, and machine creativity, and hopes to discover new ways to combine...

Eric Falci

Poet, Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Eric Falci gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Eric Falci is a professor in the Department of English. He is the author of three books - Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (2012); The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010 (2015); and The Value of Poetry (2020) - as well as a number of essays on Irish and British poetry. With Paige Reynolds, he co-edited Irish Literature in Transition,...