The 2017–2018 Creative Writing Reading Series at UC Davis will showcase writers exploring their Native American, African American, Sri Lankan and Hmong heritage as well as LGBTQ and feminist issues.
All the readings are free and open to the public at the Peter J. Shields Library, second floor, at 7 p.m. The series is presented by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, College of Letters and Science, and co-sponsored by the U.C. Davis Library.
Mai Der Vang’s debut poetry collection, Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2016), was selected by Carolyn Forché as the winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award, given by the Academy of American Poets, and was longlisted for a National Book Award for poetry in 2017. She earned her MFA in poetry from Columbia University where she was awarded the Corrente Poetry Fellowship.