45th UCR Writers Week Festival: Feb. 14, session 3: Anthony Cody, Carribean Fragoza, & Sesshu Foster
Monday, February 14, 2022 6:30pm
Monday, February 14, 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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Monday, February 14
Anthony Cody (anthonycody.com)
Publisher: Omnidawn
Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio
Anthony Cody is from Fresno, CA, with lineage in the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. Named a 2020 Poets & Writers Debut Poet for Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn), he won a ‘21 American Book Award, and a National Book Award finalist, among others.
Carribean Fragoza (carribeanfragoza.com)
Publisher: City Lights
Carribean Fragoza is the author of the story collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You published by City Lights and is the co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte published by Rutgers University Press. She was raised in South El Monte, California in the San Gabriel Valley and is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts. She co-edits UC Press's acclaimed California cultural journal, Boom California, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, Lit Hub, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Sesshu Foster (citylights.com/author/sesshu-foster)
Eladatl: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
Publisher: City Lights
Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 35 years. His most recent books are City of the Future (Kaya Press) and a novel co-authored with artist Arturo Romo, ELADATL, a History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (City Lights).
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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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