New Writing Series Spring 2023

Melissa Chadburn -- Wednesday, April 19, 2023 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm
	Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Paris Review online, and dozens other places. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, was published with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in April 2022 and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she’s basically been doing that ever since.

Manuel Paul López -- Wednesday, May 3, 2023 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm
	Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum (Futurepoem, 2023), These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited three Reclaiming Our Stories anthologies generated from the community-based writers’ workshop of the same name that he’s co-facilitated in Southeast San Diego. A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Hanging Loose, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.

Robin Coste Lewis -- Wednesday, May 17, 2023 -- Social Sciences Public Engagement Building 721 at 5:00 pm

Robin Coste Lewis

Inaugural Sherley Anne Williams Visiting Writer–Sponsored by UCSD’S Black Studies Project

Robin Coste Lewis was born in Compton, California. She earned a BA from Hampshire College, a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Southern California, an MFA in creative writing from New York University, and an MTS from the Divinity School at Harvard University.

Coste Lewis is the author of To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), winner of the 2023 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), winner of the National Book Award in Poetry.

Coste Lewis has taught at Wheaton College, Hunter College, and Hampshire College, and is the writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. The recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, she was poet laureate of Los Angeles, where she resided, from 2017 to 2019. Coste Lewis currently lives in New York City, where she is the Ford Foundation scholar-in-residence at the Museum of Modern Art.

MFA First Year Student Reading -- Wednesday, May 24, 2023 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm

Event Description: First Year students in UCSD’s MFA in Cross-Genre Writing will read from their work

● Alishya Almeida
● Lucia Herrmann
● Rebecca Lane
● Rose Pacult
● Isadora Petrovsky
● Olga Petrus

MFA Third Year Reading, Part 1 -- Wednesday, May 31, 2023 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm

Event Description: Third Year students in UCSD’s MFA in Cross-Genre Writing will read from their work

● Iman Farahani
● Kira Jacobson
● Alaric López
● Julia Moncur
● Napoleon Touafek
● Cheyenne Avila

MFA Third Year Reading, Part 2 -- Wednesday, June 7, 2023 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm

Event Description: Third Year students in UCSD’s MFA in Cross-Genre Writing will read from their work

● Maya Beck
● Dana Fidler
● Matt Ford
● Aditi Natasha Kini
● Lucien Spect

The New Writing Series is brought to you by the Literature Department and the School of Arts and Humanities

The New Writing Series thanks the Department of Visual Arts for providing us with the SME Presentation Space

For more information contact Professor Brandon Som.