45th UCR Writers Week Festival: Feb. 12, session 3: Kyle Lucia Wu, Rajiv Mohabir, Molly Fisk
Saturday, February 12, 2022 6:30pm
Saturday, February 12, 2022 6:30pm
About this Event
Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. writersweek.ucr.edu
Director, Writers Week
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing / School of Medicine-Medical Humanities
Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing
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February 12 & 14 - 18, 2022
ONLINE. Free and open to the public.
Captioned & ASL interpreted.
Full 2022 Schedule
Post-Festival Ticketed Event on February 19 with Los Angeles Review of Books
Download the Interactive 44th Writers Week Poster here
Download the Interactive Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Poster here
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Saturday, February 12
Kyle Lucia Wu (kyleluciawu.com)
Publisher: Tin House
Kyle Lucia Wu is the author of Win Me Something (Tin House 2021). She is the Managing Director at Kundiman, a nonprofit for Asian American writers, and teaches creative writing at Catapult and Fordham University.
Rajiv Mohabir (www.rajivmohabir.com)
Assistant Professor at Emerson College
Publisher: Restless Books & Four Way Books
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), the memoir Antiman (Restless Books 2021), and the translator of I Even Regret Night: Holy Songs of Demerara (1916; Kaya Press 2019). He is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College.
Molly Fisk (mollyfisk.com)
California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology
Publisher: Hip Pocket Press
Molly Fisk edited California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets as Poet Laureate of Nevada County, CA. Also an NEA fellow, her most recent poetry collection is The More Difficult Beauty.
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The 45th Writers Week 2022 is made possible by support from:
Inland Empire Magazine, UCR Department of Ethnic Studies, UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production, Center for Ideas and Society, Dr. Melissa Wilcox, Professor and Holstein Endowed Chair, Dr. Michael Alexander, Professor and Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies, Pr. Alex Espinoza, Associate Professor, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English, Distinguished Professor, UCR Department of Music, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, California Center for Native Nations, Dr. Clifford Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, UCR ARTS, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office, Native American Student Programs Office (NASP), Joshua Gonzales, Director, the Ratcliffe Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund, Los Angeles Review of Books, and our great Giving Tuesday donors!
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Information: writersweek@ucr.edu & allisonh@ucr.edu
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