Saturday, September 21st, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Bear Gallery (3rd floor, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way, 99701)
Join us for an annual presentation of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks’ MFA Writing Faculty, with readings by Gerri Brightwell, Daryl Farmer, Joseph Holt, and Kavelina Torres. Readings will include various genres and styles, including poetry, prose, short stories, and more.
Gerri Brightwell is from southwest Britain. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a PhD in Victorian literature from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her latest novel, Turnback Ridge, is about global warming and immigration.
Learn more about Gerri’s work at https://gerribrightwell.com/
Daryl Farmer is a professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he directs the MFA program in Creative Writing. He is the author of two books: Bicycling Beyond the Divide, a nonfiction book that chronicles a bicycle ride across the U.S. West, and Where We Land, a collection of short fiction.
Connect with Daryl on social media @big_strong_boy (Instagram) or daryl.farmer.35 (Facebook). Learn more about Daryl’s work at https://darylfarmer.com/
Joseph Holt is the author of the story collection Golden Heart Parade. He grew up in South Dakota and graduated from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Holt has taught at Catapult, the American College of Norway, the University of Minnesota, and elsewhere. His writing has appeared in The Sun, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review and has received an AWP Intro Journals Award.
Connect with Joseph on social media at @jsph_hlt (Twitter & Instagram) or visit https://www.holt.ink to learn more about his work.
Writing with passion, power, and humor, the Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan writer Kavelina Torres arrived from the wild tundras of the north many moons ago. Having been released from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks qasgiq with an Indigenous Filmmaking Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree, they were written into the First Nations Longhouse at The University of British Columbia, where they dreamed of fruition of their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Kavelina is a professor of Indigenous Media, emphasizing a decolonized classroom that uses Indigenous pedagogy.
Kavelina directs the Festival of Native Arts web streaming broadcast and is an alum of Sundance Indigenous Film and the Alaska Native Playwrights Program. They wrote and directed a short film, Yugumalleq. It was subsequently on FNX and PBS. They are also produced in theatre, had a brief stint as a news anchor, and published six short stories in prose – one of which was chosen as a must-read by tor.com (Technician Qamaq North published in CAROUSEL at http://carouselmagazine.ca/c46-torres/).
They recently wrote and directed Tumyaraq-qaa, an Inuit/Circumpolar North Indigenous futurism comedy short film, and Something In The Living Room, a theatre piece about an assassin who has a very bad day.
Connect with Kavelina on social media at: TikTok: @mixtrixxoftheword,
Twitter: @SnowGigglesAK, Instagram: SnowGiggles, Facebook: Kavelina SnowGiggles Torres
These events are free and open to the public thanks to our generous sponsors and donors.
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