News from the School of IAS
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
Travis Sharp publishes Yes, I am a corpse flower
Travis Sharp is a poet, editor, book artist, teacher, and PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). This spring, a revision of his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics thesis, Yes, I am a corpse flower, will be published by KFB, a small press affiliated with the poetry bookstore Knife Fork Book in Toronto. Sharp will read from Yes, I am a corpse flower at his upcoming book launch on March 31 with special guest ...
March 22, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new book and participates in Virtual New York Art Book Fair
This month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk publishes The Book: 101 Definitions, a collection of responses to the question What is the/a book?, which she posed to artists, poets, bookbinders, librarians, publishers, and booksellers. Published by Montreal artist's book publisher Anteism on the occasion of Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair, the book is ...
March 16, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s “Asking for Blue” inspires new single by Claire Michelle
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid work, “Asking for Blue,” inspired a new single by singer-songwriter Claire Michelle as part of the Bushwick Book Club Seattle, which matches musicians with writers. Chen and Michelle’s work was featured as part of this ongoing collaborative series, in which Bushwick Book Club Seattle musicians create original music inspired by the writers’ work published in the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Anthology. You can listen to “Asking for Blue” and ...
February 22, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “Dumpling-Making Kin”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s creative nonfiction essay "Dumpling-Making Kin" was published in the South Seattle Emerald. The South Seattle Emerald was founded as a platform that amplifies the voice and experience of South Seattle by authentically depicting ...
February 17, 2021
Stephanie Segura thrives as writing fellow and youth educator
MFA alum Stephanie Segura was awarded a 2020-21 Hugo Fellowship, which supports emerging writers by providing space and resources to complete a proposed project. Segura is utilizing the fellowship to work on her multi-media poetry manuscript, Open Door Behind You, a genealogy of generational trauma, memory, and dysfunctionality. Segura’s manuscript examines what it means to inherit trauma and the ways in which it affects memory and the histories we pass down.
February 11, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...
February 5, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk Publishes “Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona”
On January 15th the Quarantine Public Library released a new slate of free printable chapbooks, including IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's "Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona," a series of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets. QPL publishes artists' books designed for a single side of an 8.5 x 11 page which readers print, fold and cut using a simple template. ...
January 21, 2021
Ching-In Chen published in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “Behind the Ballroom,” “Household Mutations,” “Returning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door,” “Trying to Feel Human/Tomorrow,” and “Self-Portrait, house with no one present” were published in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel, published by Nightboat Books.
January 13, 2021
Madison Nikfard: Personal growth through writing, digital arts
Madison Nikfard, a Media & Communication Studies graduate (’20) who excelled in writing and digital arts, continues at UW Bothell in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics program. For making the most of her UW education, Nikfard was recognized this past academic year as one of the Husky 100 students honored from across all three UW campuses.
January 4, 2021
Ching-In Chen receives 2020 BIPOC Seed Grant Award on Intersectional Sustainability
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded a BIPOC Seed Grant on Intersectional sustainability: Imagining solutions to racial and environmental injustices from the University of Washington Resilience Lab in partnership with the Campus Sustainability Fund. The seed grants support resilience and compassion building initiatives that foster connection and community, educate the UW community and spark dialogue. The selected projects proposed solutions to environmental and societal problems that have a disproportionately negative impact on ...
December 18, 2020