Creative Writing

Simone White

Poet, Professor
Simone White gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 17, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy of All the World (Factory School, 2010), the poetry chapbook, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse,...

Mac Wellman

Playwright, Author, Poet
Mac Wellman was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mac Wellman’s recent work includes: The Offending Gesture, directed by Meghan Finn at the Connelly Theater in 2016; Horrocks (and Toutatis Too) Woo World Wu at Emerson College in Boston in 2013 (with Erin Mallon & Tim Sirgusa); Muazzez at the Chocolate Factory (PS122’s COIL Festival) with Steve Mellor, in 2014; 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in...

Michael Wasson

Poet
Michael Wasson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 8, 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Michael Wasson is Nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Lenore, Idaho. His poetry collection This American Ghost (YesYes Books) was winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize. He was a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and a 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow in Literature. His book Swallowed Light...

Anne Walsh

2011 & 2019 ARC Fellow
Anne Walsh was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 & Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anne Walsh is a maker of performance, video, sound, and text works, many of which re-mediate the works and lives of other artists and her own family. Walsh’s book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (2019, no place press/MIT Press) epitomizes the aggressively indexical, personal, and analytical nature of her practice: it is a visual and written ‘adaptation’ of Leonora Carrington...

Ocean Vuong

Writer, Professor, Photographer
Ocean Vuong gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 5, 2024. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author ofOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner ofthe American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more...

Cecelia Vicuña

Poet, Artist, Activist, Filmmaker
Cecilia Vicuña gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in...

Natalia Vigil

Writer, Arts Administrator
Natalia Vigil gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Natalia Vigil is a queer Xicana writer with native heritage, multimedia curator, and big sister of six, born and raised in San Francisco. She is the co-founder of Still Here San Francisco for which she was honored as a Local Hero by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She is an arts administrator passionate about community-driven creativity and...

Victor Vich

Writer, Academic
Victor Vich gave a Visiting Scholar Talk at the Arts Research Center on October 9, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Widely esteemed as one of the most insightful and original writers and academics in Peru today, Victor Vich is an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP). His interdisciplinary approach to understanding Peru's complex literary, cultural, and political histories and current landscape has...

V. Vale

Cultural Historian, Writer, Keyboard Player
V. Vale gave a Visiting Lecture Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 19, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

V. Vale is a San Francisco cultural historian, writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer. In 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. In 1980, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale...

Kellen Trenal

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, Performer, and Small Business Owner
Kellen Trenal was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – they were chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kellen Trenal (pronounced like “Chanel”) is a visual artist, performer, small business owner, alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, and holistic wellness enthusiast, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Proudly representing both African (Black American) and niimíipuu (Nez Perce) ancestry, Kellen...