Creative Writing

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,...

Tarfia Faizullah

Poet
Tarfia Faizullah gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2023.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf, 2018) and SEAM (SIU, 2014). Tarfia’s writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, the New Republic, the Nation, Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art...

Moy Eng

Poet, Vocalist, and Leader of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust
Moy Eng was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017.

Moy Eng leads Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), a community centered real estate organization for the arts. In deep partnerships with community, CAST invests and stewards affordable housing and workspaces across the San Francisco Bay Area. Launched in 2013, CAST has acquired and invested in six arts buildings in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, cited as a creative placekeeping model by cultural and civic leaders internationally...

Diamela Eltit

Writer, Global Distinguished Professor at NYU
Diamela Eltit gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 11, 2018.

Diamela Eltit is one of Latin America’s most daring writers and is highly regarded for her avant-garde initiatives in the world of letters. Eltit began her engagement with literature in her native Chile during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship when she participated in the collective CADA, staging art actions against the dictatorship, and published her first novels, Lumpérica (1983) and Por la patria...

Safia Elhillo

Poet
Safia Elhillo gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on Feb 23, 2021.

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, ...

Nadia Elbgal

Oakland Youth Laureate
Nadia Elbgal gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2023.

Nadia Elbgal is the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She is a Berkeley High graduate currently taking a few classes at Berkeley City College during her gap year. She is a Yemeni-American Muslim woman who advocates for and raises awareness on topics relating to the Middle Eastern and Muslim communities. Nadia has been a literacy mentor to Yemeni students in OUSD elementary schools as well as a teaching assistant in a mental health class at Hoover Elementary’s summer program. As an artist-...