Student Tribune
Creative Arts Visiting Writer Series 2022-2023
The Creative Arts Committee is thrilled to announce our 2022-2023 Visting
Writer Series! Details are listed below. Please contact Tony Leuzzi
(aleuzzi@monroecc.edu) or Maria Brandt (mbrandt@monroecc.edu) with any
questions.
Visiting Fiction Writer, Cleyvis Natera
Pre-recorded Reading (link available after August 16)
Live Zoom Workshop, Monday, October 24, 2022
11 a.m. Fiction Workshop (host)
Zoom Link: Available after August 16
Free and Open to Public
Cleyvis
Natera is the author of the debut novel Neruda on the
Park. She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts
from New York University. She’s received honors from PEN America, Bread
Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and
Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). Her fiction, essays and
criticism have appeared in Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of
Immigration, TIME, Gagosian Quarterly, The Washington Post,
The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix) and Kweli Journal, among other
publications. Cleyvis teaches creative writing to undergraduate students at
Fordham University and graduate students at the Writer’s Foundry MFA
Program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. She lives with her husband
and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.
Visiting Poet, Diane Seuss
Pre-recorded Reading (link available after August 16)
Live Zoom Workshop, Wednesday, November 9, 2022
12 p.m. ENG 105-013 (host)
Zoom Link: Available after August 16
Free and Open to Public
Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. Seuss is the author
of the poetry collections Frank: Sonnets (2021), winner of
the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still
Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged
Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake,
White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009
Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You
Hollow (1998). Her work has appeared
in Poetry, the Georgia Review, Brevity, Able Muse,
Valparaiso Poetry Review, and the Missouri
Review, as well as The Best American Poetry
2014. She was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor in the
Department of English at Colorado College in 2012, and she has taught at
Kalamazoo College since 1988. Seuss earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an
MSW from Western Michigan University.
Visiting Poet, Jessica Jacobs
Pre-recorded Reading (link available after August 16)
Live Zoom Workshop, Thursday, September 29, 2022
12:30 p.m. Poetry Workshop (host)
Zoom Link: Available after August 16
Free and Open to Public
Jessica Jacobs is the author of Ta
ke Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way
Books), named one of Library Journal‘s Best Poetry Books of
the year, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern
Illinois University and the Goldie Award from the Golden Crown Literary
Society, and a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell, American Fiction, Eric
Hoffer, and Julie Suk Book Awards. Her debut collection, Pelvis with
Distance (White Pine Press), won the New Mexico Book Award in
Poetry, was an Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association
and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Julie Suk Awards. Her
chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by
Sibling Rivalry Press.
Visiting CNF Writer, Lilly Dancyger
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12 PM, CNF Workshop (host)
Zoom Link: https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/86726323567
Free and Open to the Public
Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative
Space (2021), a reported and illustrated
memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers
Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It
Down (2019), a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on
women's anger from Seal Press. She is currently at work on an essay
collection about the power and complexity of female friendship.
Lilly’s writing has been published
by Guernica, Literary Hub, The
Rumpus, Longreads, The Washington
Post, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She
lives in New York City, and you can find her on Twitter at @lillydancyger.
Visiting Playwright, Brian Quijada
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 7 PM, Black Box Theater, Reading and Conversation
Friday, April 28, 2023, 10 AM, Black Box Theater, Playwriting Workshop
Friday, April 28, 2023, 12 PM, 8-200, Playwriting Workshop (host)
Free and Open to the Public
Brian Quijada is an actor, playwright, and composer
whose original work has been developed and produced all across the country. His
hip-hop solo show Where Did We Sit on the Bus? has been
produced at Victory Gardens, Geva Theatre (Emmy Nomination for digital stream),
Teatro Vista (Jeff Award), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Drama Desk Nomination),
Boise Contemporary, 1st Stage, City Theatre Pittsburgh, and a digital
production at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Drama League Nomination). His
play Kid Prince and Pablo premiered at The Kennedy Center in
2019. Brian’s plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh
CLO’s Spark Festival, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, New Stage
and Film’s Powerhouse Festival, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater
Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference. Commissioning institutions
include A.R.T., 1st Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Wooly Mammoth, and The
Kennedy Center, and he is a proud member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Brian’s song “The Always Song” was the 2021’s Hispanic
Heritage Month Song for Nickelodeon.
Brandt, Maria
Creative Arts
06/15/2022