New Writing Series: PhD Creative-Critical Poet Reading

About New Writing Series UC San Diego’s New Writing Series invites local, national, and international authors to read and perform throughout the academic year. Welcoming a wide range of authors and genres, including playwrights, poets, translators, essayists, critics, fiction writers, and performance artists, the New Writing Series celebrates both emerging and established award-winning writers. Readers also include Department of Literature faculty and graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing. The readings are followed by in-depth question and answer periods that center on craft and artistic practice. The New Writing Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Literature, the International House, and the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Recordings of New Writing Series readings, as well as its predecessor, the New Poetry Series, which dates back to 1972, are part of the Archive for New Poetry in UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd from 5:00PM-7:00PM in the Great Hall for the New Writing Series. This event features readings from the UCSD Literature Department's PHD students: Ana Villalpando, Nilufar Karimi, Phuong Vuong, Traimaine Suubi, and Vyxz Vasquez. Please register for this event here! Speaker Information: Ana Villalpando is a transfronteriza researcher and artist born in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Baja California, an MA in Education from California State University, Long Beach and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literatures in Spanish at University of California, San Diego. Her art has been exhibited at The Front, The Woo and Centro Cultural La Raza in San Diego, California; her poetry has been published by UCLA’s Párrafo magazine, Chilean magazine La Raza cómica, NYU's Esferas Journal and UTEP's Rio Grande Review. Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and writer raised in Oakland, CA. She is a PhD candidate in