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Sofia Bell is a UCSC senior majoring in literature with a concentration in poetry.  She has self-published two books of poetry and is currently working on a third.  When she graduates next quarter, she plans on moving to Portland, Oregon to continue writing.

Chase Dimock is a senior at UCSC majoring in Creative Writing and Political Science. Cn his current work, he focuses on revisiting his childhood in Los Angeles and situating himself within its notable historical events and suburban culture.

Stephanie King is a senior in the creative writing concentration at UCSC finishing up her last quarter.  She was born in Wyoming and grew up in Riverside.  She has one chapbook called Atmospheres and her poetry tends to be still life, focusing on description and imagery.

Ian Livingston is a California native and SLVHS dropout.  An arborist by trade and student by vocation he hopes to write as long as he can climb and/or learn.

Dennis McGinley first felt an affinity for poetry in English literature classes at UC Berkeley in the 60’s.  This recently retired grandfather began to write poetry last year in Dr. Tom Marshall’s class at Cabrillo College.  Inspired by Dr. Marshall and his classmates, he continues to pursue the muse at Cabrillo this semester.

A senior in the creative writing concentration at UCSC, Jack Moser currently works as a co-editor of the literary journal Chinquapin and has published various poems and works of short fiction in other on-campus literary journals.

David Pérez completed UCSC’s undergraduate creative writing program in 2003.  There he studied poetry and fiction writing.  He performs spoken word in Santa Cruz and San Jose on a regular basis.  Currently, he lives in Santa Cruz and attends Cabrillo College where he studies poetry and screenwriting.

Dian Duchin Reed has received the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Prize from Cabrillo College.  Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Texas Poetry Journal, Kalliope, Comstock Review, Rattle, and Borderlands magazines.

Yahya was born in Brooklyn, New York.  Poet.  Lyricist.  Artist.  Will transfer to Berkeley in the Fall where he will continue to ponder, with his 3 year old son, the meaning of life.

Hauna Zaich is a senior Creative Writing Student at UCSC. She was born and raised in Stockton, California.  Currently she is UCSC’s Creative Writing Coordinator and co-editor of the literary arts magazine Chinquapin.  Next year, she will be somewhere in the state of California getting her Masters in Education.
 

This event is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.

Poetry Santa Cruz receives funding from the the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.  Some of our readers receive funding from Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also sponsored by Casablanca Inn, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, The Attic, National Writers Union Chapter 7, KUSP, the William James Association, the Museum of Art & History, and Cabrillo College.  Membership premiums have been donated by Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Coffee House Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Robert Sward and Patricia Grube.