Students

Gail Arnold
 
Nikolai Beope
 
K. Lorraine Graham
K. Lorraine Graham
K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Terminal Humming (Edge Books, 2009) and several chapbooks, including Large Waves to Large Obstacles, forthcoming from Take-Home Project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Traffic, Area Sneaks, Foursquare and elsewhere. She currently lives in southern California with her partner, Mark Wallace, and Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com
Courtney Kilian
Courtney Kilian
Courtney Kilian is a native southern Californian who is environmentally inspired by its bearded palm trees, undulating tides, and hues of avocado and citrus produce in a region tormented by Santa Ana swept fires. She received her B.A. in Literature and Writing Studies from California State University, San Marcos. While at CSUSM, she worked on building the literature and writing community by helping organize the Creative Writing Community Workshop Club, student readings, and the publication of broadsides, chapbooks, and the first edition of their literary journal, Oh, Cat. She has interned for 1913 a journal of forms, worked with Native American tribal communities following the southern California fires with NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Services, USDA), and lived in Lugano, Switzerland. Her interests include the biology of cancer, experimental prose, weather patterns, writing communities, and Native American and Tribal Government studies.
Ryan Luz
Ryan Luz
Ryan Luz is a writer. He is also an avid photographer and musician. He currently lives in San Diego with his ocean, the Pacific. His photographs can be seen here, his music can be heard here, and his writing can be read here.

John Pluecker
John Pluecker
John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter and literary translator. His short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in journals and magazines in the U.S. and Mexico. He has presented his literary work and performance at writers’ gatherings across Northern Mexico and the Southwest US.Three books he translated from the Spanish have been published and three more are forthcoming, including a novel from Tampico, a collection of essays from Tijuana and a collection of short stories from El Salvador.
Lester O'Connor
Lester O'Connor
Lester O’Connor writes in several genres in addition to video work and street propaganda. He has co-edited the pacific REVIEW and reviewed films for a defunct alt-weekly. He teaches for the Dimensions of Culture program at Marshall College.


Kaitlin Solimine
Kaitlin Solimine
Kaitlin Solimine is a writer, musician, and Sinologist. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies (emphasis on Chinese language and culture) and an M.A. from the University of Southern California in East Asian Studies. She has lived in China for a total of five years since 1996. While at Harvard, she wrote and edited three travel guides for the Let's Go: China book series (St. Martin's Press) and received a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship to study at Beijing University. Kaitlin is fluent in Mandarin Chinese; while living in China, she worked as a media associate for News Corp. and Pan Media. In 2006, she received a Fulbright creative grant to conduct research in China for her first novel, The Soap Tree. An early draft of the novel was short-listed for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship (2008) and Kaitlin workshopped the novel at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2009 as a Fiction Scholar. She is interested in writing that examines the intersection between cultures and that plays with historical perspectives. In her free time, she writes music; she was the lead singer of a rock band in Beijing and performed (in a hideous yellow dress) on Chinese national television singing in Mandarin. She lives in Southern California with her fiancée, Joseph Smolen, and their cat, Chairman Meow.