45th UCR Writers Week Festival: Feb. 18, session 1: Juanita Mantz, Amanda Moore, Antonio de Jesús López
Friday, February 18, 2022 1pm
Friday, February 18, 2022 1pm
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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Friday, February 18
Juanita Mantz (juanitaemantz.com)
"Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender (or, how I became a punk rock lawyer)"
"Tales of an Inland Empire Girl"
Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press
Juanita E. Mantz is a writer, performer and deputy public defender in Riverside, California. Her multi genre chapbook "Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender, or how I became a punk rock lawyer", was released by Bamboo Dart Press in August 2021. Her book, "Tales of an Inland Empire Girl" will be released in January 2022 by Los Nietos Press
Amanda Moore (amandapmoore.com)
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and was published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and she has served as an editor and reader for Women's Voices for Change, Bull City Press, and VIDA. She is a high school English teacher in San Francisco.
Antonio de Jesús López (LinkedIn)(barrioscribe.com)
Publisher: Four Way Books
Antonio López is a poetician working at the intersection of poetry, politics and social change. His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Antonio is currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com
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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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