Creative Writing

Cornelius Eady

Poet, Professor, Co-Founder of Cave Canem
Cornelius Eady was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Celebrating Cave Canem Conversation at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2021.

Born on January 7, 1954, Cornelius Eady was raised in Rochester, New York. He attended Monroe Community College and Empire State College.

Eady is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie...

Camille T. Dungy

Poet and Professor
Camille T. Dungy gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 17, 2021.

Camille T. Dungy was a visiting writer with the Arts Research Center. Dungy was born and raised in the western United States (Colorado and California), though she has lived briefly in most other regions of the U.S. and has spent time on all but one continent and several countries. Dungy attributes some of the energy in her writing to both her delight in going new places and meeting new people and the good fortune of having a beautiful place to root down and call home. In much...

Natalie Diaz

Mojave American poet, Language Activist, Former Professional Basketball player, Educator
Natalie Diaz gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 26, 2021.

Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and...

Ahmad Diab

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Cinema at UC Berkeley
Ahmad Diab was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ahmad Diab is a Palestinian writer and academic. He is assistant professor of modern Arabic literature and cinema (20th and 21st centuries) at University of California, Berkeley. His work contemplates the relationship between displacement and representation. He received his B.A. from Damascus University. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is currently...

Al-An deSouza

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Al-An deSouza was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Al-An deSouza works across photo-media, installation, text and performance works as staging grounds for historical memory and its legacies upon the present. Their works draw upon formal and informal archives, remaking them through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and internationally, including at the Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY, Krannert Museum, IL; Phillips...

Jen de los Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer
Jen de los Reyes was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her...

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.