The UC San Diego Department of Literature’s New Writing Series is back this spring with a number of events taking place in Geisel Library’s Seuss Room!
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, writer, and poet, originally from Detroit. She has premiered almost 50 original performance artworks around the world, including as a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico. She collaborated with Vladimir Cybil Charlier on “Tourist Art,” a Haitian image + text project. She has also contributed her writing to Small Axe, Art21, Poem-a-Day, Kitchen Table Translation, Obsidian and more. Her memoir in performance art Swallow the Fish was named an Entropy “Best Non-Fiction Book” of 2017. Her latest book Experiments in Joy (2019) focuses on black feminist collaborations and solos. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and currently serves as MFA Faculty in Creative Writing and BFA Faculty in Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
Contact:
Brandon Som, (858) 534-3143, bdsom@ucsd.edu