The UC San Diego Department of Literature’s New Writing Series returns this fall with a number of events taking place virtually! Learn from talented authors
Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a daughter of immigrants from the Philippines. She is the author of two books of poetry, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2017). She was a VONA/Voices Fellow and was awarded a Manuel G. Flores Prize, PAWA Scholarship to the Kundiman Poetry Retreat. She is a Poetry Editor at Angel City Review, and co-founder of Sunday Jump in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown. Her work has been published in various anthologies. She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.
Richard Chiem is the author of You Private Person (Sorry House Classics, 2017), and the novel, King of Joy (Soft Skull, 2019), which was long listed for the 2020 PEN Open Book Award. He was named a 2019 Writer to Watch by the Los Angeles Times. He has taught at Hugo House and Catapult. He lives in Seattle.
This event is hosted by the Literature Department and will be archived and made available through the Library’s Archive for New Poetry in Special Collections & Archives.
Contact:
Camille F. Forbes
cfforbes@ucsd.edu
Registration:
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/93022719617?pwd=akwxNUhldGkvd09GNHgwQ0RjbGZ5Zz09