Always outstanding, sometimes controversial, but never dull regional and local authors read from and discuss their works as well as the craft of writing, and engage in dialogue with their audience in this always compelling series of talks hosted semi-annually on the campus.
Talks about her recent book of essays and photography, After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, which explores the city where she grew up. Her extensive career includes working as a staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly.
American legal scholar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and a recipient of the American Bar Foundation's Outstanding Scholar Award, is an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure.
Join Mario Padilla and a noteworthy spectrum of writers - including David Burak, Eleni Hioureas, Grace Smith, and a select of SMC students - for live poetry readings. Additional sponsors: SMC African American Collegiate Center and SMC's Adelante Program.
Reading selections from her short story collection in the Not Quite Dark. An English professor and director of the PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program at the university of Southern California, Johnson authored Break Any Woman Down.
artoonist MariNaomi is an award-winning author and illustrator whose works include "Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume"; "Ages 0 to 22"; "Turning Japanese"; "I Thought YOU Hated ME"; and the "Life on Earth" trilogy. Her work has appeared in more that 60 print publications and been featured at the Smithsonian, De Young Museum, Cartoon Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, and Japanese American Museum, She is the founder of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database, has toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit, and cohosts the podcast "Ask BiGrlz" with Myriam Gurba. Cosponsored by SMC Global Citizenship.
Award-winning Iranian-American poet and author - Internationally known as a literary translator - reads selections from her work and underscores the importance of global awareness and of crossing language and cultural boundries.
Renowned author, professor, lawyer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson - who participated in the national Science Foundation's Antarctic Writers and Artists program.
Award-winning author Siel Ju-SMC English professor, author of two poetry chapbooks and numerous published short stories and poems, and the recipient of a residency from The Anderson Center at Tower View & Vermont Studio Center-will read selections from he