Creative Writing

Cathy Linh Che

Writer, Multidiscliplinary Artist
Cathy Linh Che gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 10, 2022.

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split(Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book...

MK Chavez

Writer, Educator
MK Chavez gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in May 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal, Virgin Eyes, and a Brief History Of The Selfie

Chavez has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, CantoMundo, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, Caldera

VONA, North Street Collective Residence Program, Real Time & Space Elevate Residency, and Napa Valley Writers Workshop.

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Jeff Chang

Writer and Cultural Organizer
Jeff Chang gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 17, 2016.

Jeff Chang is a writer and cultural organizer who has worked in and written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music.

He is finishing a cultural biography of Bruce Lee called Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner/HarperCollins). He is the host of the Edge of Reason, a podcast of...

Deena Chalabi

Writer, Curator, and Strategist
Deena Chalabi was a Moderator at the Syria’s Fraught Balance Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.

Deena Chalabi is a strategist, curator and writer whose work explores how individual expression and critical thought can impact and expand public imagination. She was most recently Senior Director of Growth and Partnerships at The OpEd Project, a global thought leadership initiative for elevating underrepresented voices working towards a more intelligent and inclusive world.

Deena is also Brand Advisor at Armory Square Ventures and teaches global...

Phillip Cash Cash

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Artist, Writer, and Traditional Healer
Phillip Cash Cash was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – he was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Phillip Cash Cash is a niimíipuu (Nez Perce)/weyíiletpuu (Cayuse) human, an award winning Indigenous scholar, artist, writer, and traditional healer. He is a younger speaker of nimiipuutímt, the Nez Perce language, a severely endangered language. Cash Cash holds doctoral degrees in linguistics and anthropology. His creativity and inquiry are life-centered endeavors...

Kim Addonizio

Writer, Music-Maker, and Maquisard
Kim Addonizio gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/...

Chris Carlsson

Writer, San Francisco Historian, Photographer, Book & Magazine Designer
Chris Carlsson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015.

Chris Carlsson, is a writer, San Francisco historian, “professor,” bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine designer. He’s lived in San Francisco since 1978 and has been self-employed in various capacities since the early 1980s. He has written four books (When Shells Crumble, Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories; After the Deluge; Nowtopia...

Carol Ann Carl

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Carol Ann was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with University of Hawaiʻi – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Carol Ann Carl is a daughter of the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. In 2020, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa. Storytelling and writing are personal forms of pedagogical healing. Professionally and creatively, Carol Ann leans into the intersectionality of her identity – indigeneity, science, health,...

Zoya Brumberg-Kraus

Scholar, Editor
Dr. Zoya Brumberg-Kraus was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

Dr. Zoya Brumberg-Kraus is a scholar-writer and editor located in the Detroit Metro Area. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art Studio from Mount Holyoke College. In 2023-24, Brumberg-Kraus was a Research Fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies for the theme year Jewish...

William Brewer

Novelist, Professor, Former Stegner Fellow
William Brewer gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

William Brewer’s debut novel, The Red Arrow, is out from Knopf. It received the Silver Medal for First Fiction from the California Book Awards. His first book, I Know Your Kind, was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. Formerly a Stegner Fellow, he’s currently a Jones Lecturer...