New Writing Series Winter 2024

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of the essay collections, The Witch of Eye and Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, and three poetry collections, Rue, The End of Pink, and Rag & Bone. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the NEA, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, and American Antiquarian Society, and she was awarded the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

Poet Laureate of the city of San Diego, Jason Magabo Perez is the author of two hybrid collections of poetry and prose: a chapbook, Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016); and a full-length debut, This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). A VONA/Voices alumnus, Perez's writing has appeared in Witness, TAYO, vitriol, Eleven Eleven, Mission at Tenth, and The Feminist Wire. Perez is Program Director of the Ethnic Studies Department at CSU San Marcos.

Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gutiérrez credits the queer and feminist diy, post-punk zine culture of the 1990s, plus Los Angeles County and Getty paid arts internships, for introducing her/them to the various vibrant art and music scenes and communities throughout Southern California. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism and a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is/They are faculty for Oregon State University–Cascades’ Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona, home.

George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, performance artist, and writer from Jacksonville, FL. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, The Arab American National Museum, and more. They are currently a Litowitz MFA+MA student in Poetry at Northwestern University. He is currently Executive Editor of the Whiting Award winning journal Mizna.