Creative Writing

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Poet
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 26, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an American father who was the son of Dutch immigrants. Her mother was a mathematician, and her maternal grandmother received a college education in prerevolutionary China. Her father was employed at the American Embassy in Chungking, and later pursued Far Eastern studies at Harvard University. Her family...

Jasper Bernes

ARC Fellow and Continuing Lecturer of English at UC Berkeley
Jasper Bernes was an ARC Fellow in 2009 – he was chosen in the faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jasper Bernes is author of a scholarly book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, 2017), and two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). Essays, poems and other writings can be found in Critical Inquiry, Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader,...

JD Beltran

Artist/Filmmaker, Inventor, Journalist, Writer, Designer, Educator, Creativity Cheerleader, and Founder/Director of Center for Creative Sustainability
JD Beltran was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the "ART/CITY" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. JD Beltran is an award-winning creative, journalist, and policymaker with extensive experience in design & technology, sustainability, culture, and art. She is the Founder & Director of the Center...

Dodie Bellamy

Novelist, Poet, and Essayist
Dodie Bellamy gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, poet, and essayist with an extensive body of work that includes many books and a handful of chapbooks. Her writing is known for its genre-bending approach, focusing on feminism, sexuality, cultural artifacts, and all things queer. She champions the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchised, and the troubled. Bellamy believes...

Laura Belik

Ph.D. Student at UC Berkeley in Architecture
If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Laura Belik is a doctoral candidate in architecture at UC Berkeley. She holds an MA in design studies from Parsons- The New School (New York) and a BArch in architecture and urban planning from Escola da Cidade (São Paulo- Brazil). Her current doctoral work delves into the histories and memories of early 20th-century migrant labor camps established for retirantes das secas(drought refugees) in Northeast Brazil, investigating the role of the built environment in shaping the modern...

Bonnie Begusch

2009 ARC Fellow
Bonnie Begusch was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Bonnie Begusch (b. 1981 in Oakland, USA) works primarily with time-based media and text. After studying Media Art and Literature at UCLA, she received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been screened and exhibited at numerous venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Berkeley Art Museum; Sterling Music Room, New...

Roberto Bedoya

Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland
Roberto Bedoy was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Conversation on January 17, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Roberto Bedoya is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland, where he recently shepherded its Cultural Plan, Belonging in Oakland: a Cultural Development Plan. Throughout his career, Bedoya has consistently supported artist-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging in the cultural sector. His essays, “U.S. Cultural...

John Perry Barlow

Poet, Essayist, Cattle Rancher, Cyberlibertarian Political Activist, and Former Lyricist for the Grateful Dead
John Perry Barlow gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 8, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. In 1990, John Perry Barlow co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit based in the U.S. that provides legal aid to defend individuals and new technologies from what it considers to be misdirected legal threats. His writing about the impact of the Internet has influenced people’s thinking since the network’s earliest days. His essays for Wired, The New York Times...

Erika Balsom

Film Scholar, Critic, and Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London
Erika Balsom was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the "Curating People" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the histories, aesthetics, and politics of nonfiction cinemas.

She has published extensively on the intersections of art and the moving image, often focusing on questions of technological change and/or examining the relationship between artistic practices and their...

Ari Banias

Author
Ari Banias 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.

Ari Banias is the author of A Symmetry, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and Anybody, both from W. W. Norton. His work has been supported by numerous fellowships and residencies, and has been published in American Poetry Review, Triple Canopy, The Nation, Georgia...