Creative Writing

Projects

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C.O.M.R.A.

Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Creative Writing, Visual Culture
&Now Keynote Speakers

&Now Festival of Innovative Writing: Points of Convergence

Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Poetry
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Convergence on Poetics

Creative Writing, Poetry
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The Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations

Anthropocene, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Environment, Humanities
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ASAP/14 Arts of Fugitivity

Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Research, Literary Studies, Performance Studies

Articles

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New Funding Opportunity and Publication Workshop

Public Scholarship, Writing Studies, Creative Writing
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2022-23 Imagining Trans Futures Writing Group Call + Meet and Greet

Trans Studies, Writing Studies, Creative Writing

People

Denise Grollmus

Denise Grollmus (she/ella)

Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, teacher, web designer, and translator who was the Simpson Center's Communications Manager from 2018-2020. 

Affect Studies, Community Colleges, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Translation Studies, Visual Culture
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Rae Paris (she/her/hers)

Rae Paris is from Carson, California with roots extending to New Orleans. Her writing, research, teaching, and service are layered in land, memory, resistance, Black, Indigenous, and Brown futures, and love.

Black Studies, Creative Writing, Poetry
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C.R. Grimmer (she/they)

C. R. Grimmer is a poet and scholar from Southeast Michigan's Metro-Detroit area. C. R. received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW) as well as their M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A.

Capitalism, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry, Public Scholarship, Race, Social Justice
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Amaranth Borsuk (she/her/hers)

My work as a scholar and poet is united by a focus on textual materiality—from the surface of the page to the surface of language. My poetry is highly attuned to the texture of words, their resonances and slippages, often drawing on etymology and language play.

Creative Writing, Poetry
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Nanya Jhingran (she/they)

Nanya Jhingran is a poet, scholar, and teacher from Lucknow, India, currently living by the coastal margin of the Salish Sea, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People upon which the city of Seattle was built.

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Poetry
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Jessica Holmes (she/her/hers)

Composition Studies, Creative Writing, Feminisms
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Julie Stoverink

Julie Stoverink acts as the chief financial officer for the Simpson Center.  She works closely with the faculty Director, Simpson Center staff, and CAS administrative team to steward the Center’s diverse financial portfolio, including budget development, revenue forecasting, financia

Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, GWSS, Identity and Culture, Performance Studies, Performing Arts, Poetry, Queer Studies, Social Justice
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Sarah Levin-Richardson (she/her/hers)

Sarah Levin-Richardson explores ancient Roman slavery and sexuality at the intersection of material culture and social history, with a 2019 book on Pompeii’s brothel (The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society), and a new monograph project called T

Affect Studies, Classics, Creative Writing, History, Identity and Culture