Creative Writing

Julian Ankney

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Julian Ankney was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Julian Ankney is Niimíipuu ‘Nez Perce’ and lives on both the Nez Perce Reservation in Lapwai, Idaho and Portland, Oregon. Ankney is the Director for Native American Programs, co-director of the Visiting Writers Series, and co-fiction editor for Blood Orange Review at Washington State University Vancouver/Pullman. She teaches Native American and multicultural literature,...

Claire Hong

Visiting Writer
Claire Hong gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 2, 2023.

Claire Hong is the author of Upend (Noemi Press), which was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University (2019-2021) and has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ where she works to distribute traditional, arid adapted seeds.

Cody Achin

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Cody Achin was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – he was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Cody Achin is half Native American. Half Anglo and half O’odham. Currently residing within his ancestral and childhood home within the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Reservation in Arizona. Achin recently graduated from Arizona State University in Spring 2023 with a Bachelor’s in English with a focus on Poetry. Achin’s poetry is tied heavily to his cultural background and his...

Michael Pollan

Journalist and Professor of Non-Fiction at Harvard University
Michael Pollan gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2009.

For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers; three of them (including his latest, How to Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. Previous books include Cooked (2013), Food Rules (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Spoken Word Artist, Writer, Librettist, and Cultural Strategist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Situated: A Rite to Heal Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An internationally...

Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!

Bonnie Begusch

2009 ARC Fellow
Bonnie Begusch was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

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 York; SF Film Society, San Francisco; KARST, Plymouth; RUA RED, Dublin; Exile,...

Cianga

ARC Fellow and Artist
Cianga was an ARC Fellow in Spring & Fall 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Cianga (cha-nga) is a Congolese artist based in California, by way of South Africa. A recipient of the Cave Canem + EcoTheo’s Starshine & Clay Fellowship, Cianga creates interdisciplinary work that seeks to decolonize and disrupt language. They are currently an MFA candidate and have received residency and fellowship support from UC Berkeley’s Arts & Research Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Atlantic...

Jenna Wortham

Journalist
Jenna Wortham gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017.

Jenna Wortham (they/them), also known as J Wortham, is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, herbalist, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation.

J is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and co-host of the...

Nellie Wong

Poet, Socialist Feminist Activist
Nellie Wong gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Nellie Wong was born in Oakland, California, on September 12, 1934. As a teenager she worked in her parents’ Chinese restaurant, and after graduating high school, she took a job as a secretary for Bethlehem Steel Corporation, where she worked until 1982. In her mid-thirties, she began studying creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Wong published her first book of poetry, Dreams in...