Creative Writing

Lili Loofbourow gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Before that, The Week. An essay of hers was in Best American Essays 2019, and she won the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Staige...

Raina J. León gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Raina J. León, PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre, partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of...

Anastasia Le was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anastasia Le is a poet and printmaker from the Lake Chabot area of the East Bay. Her work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review’s Midterm Five: Interlace/Intersect, the 2021 Southeast Asian Student Coalition anthology, and on the walls of her former co-op. She approaches poetry with a Vietnamese...

Grace Lavery was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular...