Claudia D. Hernández is a poet, editor, translator, and bilingual educator, born and raised in Guatemala. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and writes in Spanish and English, and sometimes weaves in Poqomchiʼ, an indigenous language of her Mayan heritage. Hernández is the editor of the anthology Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions (Conocimientos Press 2017), and the founder of the ongoing photography project Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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2019 Featured Author: Chia-Chia Lin
Chia-Chia Lin graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received the Henfield Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, Zyzzyva, and other journals.
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2019 Featured Author: Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize longlist; and The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Read More …
2019 Featured Event: Writers Week at UCR
UCR Writers Week is February 4 to 16, 2019
Literature lovers in Southern California rejoice! The 42nd-annual Writers Week begins February 4th at UC Riverside and features an astonishing line-up of well-regarded speakers.
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2019 Featured Author: Tommy Pico
photo by Niqui Carter
January 19, 2019 at 5 PM at Skylight Books: 2018 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry Tommy Pico reads from Junk with Joseph Osmundson. Read More …
