Creative Writing

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Philip Kan Gotanda was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. Gotanda has specialized in investigating the Japanese American family, writing a...

Caroline Goodwin

Professor, Poet, Former Stegner fellow
Caroline Goodwin gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Caroline Goodwin moved from Sitka, Alaska to the San Francisco Area to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry in 1999. Her most recent collections are Old Snow, White Sun (JackLeg Press, 2021), Madrigals (Big Yes Press, 2021), and Matanuska (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK, 2022). She lives on the San Mateo coast and teaches at the California College of the Arts, Stanford Continuing Studies, and UC Berkeley Extension. From...

Clement Goldberg

2016 ARC Fellow
Clement Goldberg was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Clement Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a...

Aracelis Girmay

Poet, Professor of English at Stanford University
Aracelis Girmay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2023.

Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies.

In her 2011 online chat interview with the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, Girmay discussed innovative and hybrid poetric forms, stating, “I wonder what new explorations of form might have to do with documenting the new...

C.S. Giscombe

Poet, Essayist, Robert Hass Chair in English at UC Berkeley
C.S. Giscombe gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

C.S. Giscombe was born in 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated with degrees in English from University at Albany and Cornell University. At Cornell, he edited Epoch magazine.

Giscombe’s books include Negro Mountain (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Similarly (Dalkey Archive, 2020); Border Towns (Dalkey Archive, 2016); Ohio Railroads (Omnidawn, 2014); Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive...

Rebecca Gaydos

2011 ARC Fellow
Rebecca Gaydos was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Rebecca Gaydos was born in Santa Barbara, California, where her mother and father worked as professional ballet dancers. At UC Berkeley, she won the Eisner Prize in Poetry and earned her Ph.D. in English. She has taught literature and writing at Diablo Valley College, San Quentin State Prison, and UC Berkeley. Currently, in addition to writing poetry, she is editing an unpublished novella by poet Larry Eigner and completing a scholarly book on the significance of...

Ross Gay

Poet, Essayist
Ross Gay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 17, 2021.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley...

Malik Gaines

Associate Professor at NYU Tisch
Malik Gaines was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Malik Gaines is a writer and artist involved with performances.

His articles have appeared in Women & Performance and Art Journal, and in magazines including Artforum. Gaines has written many essays for museum books, about artists including the Judson Dance Theater, Lorraine O’Grady, Senga Nengudi, Pope.L, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ed Bereal,...

Gloria Frym

Poet, Fiction Writer, Professor at California College of the Arts Graduate Writing Program
Gloria Frym gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Gloria Frym is a poet and fiction writer. Her collection of essays, How Proust Ruined My Life, was published by BlazeVox Books in 2020. Her other books include The True Patriot, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015); The Stage Stop Motel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014); Mind Over Matter (BlazeVOX books, 2011); Any Time Soon (...

Vievee Francis

Poet, Professor of Poetry & Poetics at Dartmouth College
Vievee Francis gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2023.

Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year.

Francis is the author of The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023); Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and ...