Creative Writing

Morgan Parker

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Novelist
Morgan Parker was a Visiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections...

Matthew Olzmann

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth
Matthew Olzmann was an ARC Fellow in 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit. He received a BA from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of Constellation Route (Alice James Books, 2022); Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016); and Mezzanines (Alice James Books, 2013), winner of the 2011...

Aja Monet

ARC Fellow, Poet, Writer, Lyricist, and Activist
Aja Monet was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Spring 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in New York City to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, Aja Monet Bacquie began writing poems when she was eight or nine years old. While attending Baruch College Campus High School, she performed spoken-word for school talent shows. Around this time, Monet joined Urban Word NYC—a non-profit organization that offers guidance and public platforms to young writers,...

Hieu Minh Nguyen

Poetry and the Senses Fellow, Poet, and Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University
Hieu Minh Nguyen gave a Visiting Writer Reading/Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 23, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet from the Twin Cities, he is the author of two collections of poetry,This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing...

Lyric Empathy: Workshop featuring Tess Taylor with Christopher Schell

March 19, 2026
Lyric Empathy: Conversations with the Nonhuman
featuring Tess Taylor with Christopher Schell Thursday, March 19, 2026 10am – 12pm ARC| Hearst Field Annex D23 (map) This workshop is interdisciplinary and designed for students in ESPM and Comparative Literature.
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Join us for a generative writing workshop, Lyric Empathy: Conversations with the Nonhuman led by poet Tess Taylor with professor Christopher...

Love Poems: Writing Workshop with Margaret Ross

February 6, 2026
Love Poems: Writing Workshop
with Margaret Ross Friday, Feb 6, 2026
1pm – 3pm
Hearst Field Annex D23 (map) UC Berkeley is lucky to have poet Margaret Ross in residence as the Holloway Lecturer in Poetry for the spring 2026 semester. She will be leading a two-hour poetry workshop at the Arts Research Center on Feb 6, 2026, free & open to Berkeley students. Application is first-come, first-served.

Christina Rivera: MY OCEANS | Book Talk & Reading

October 29, 2025

Read more about Christina Rivera's work here.

Poetry & the Mythic Imagination: Jennifer Reimer and Aimee Suzara

October 16, 2025
Poetry & the Mythic Imagination:
Jennifer Reimer & Aimee Suzara
Poetry Reading and Conversation Moderated by Erika Higbee Thursday, October 16, 2025 6:00pm Location: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 Free & open to the public Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept of English, Asian American Research Center, and the Center for Race & Gender

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Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA
Ted Purves was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ted Purves was an independent artist, editor, and curator. His work has been exhibited and published in many venues and journals throughout California, as well as in New York, Boston, Albany and several cities in Germany. Purves has won funding from the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts and been an artist-in-...

D.A. Powell

Poet and Professor at the University of San Francisco
D. A. Powell 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.

Born in Albany, Georgia, D. A. Powell earned an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and Cocktails (2004), are considered by some to be a trilogy on the AIDS epidemic. Lunch...