| Description | Gamut literary series provides opportunities to hear and see work from the diversity of creative voices within the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics community. The series features readings by current students, alumni, and faculty and is open to the public. The name “Gamut” refers to the MFA program’s interdisciplinary nature, which encourages and challenges students to experiment between genres and mediums, resulting in a wide range of creative works.
Register for Gamut Reading (online via Zoom)
Fri, Apr 16, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Registered participants will receive a web access link
Featured Readers: - Sky O'Brien, MFA Candidate
- Chris Ryan Lauer, MFA Candidate
- Jessica Hagy (MFA, 2018)
- Rebecca Brown, MFA faculty
Reader Bios
Sky O’Brien is a writer from Perth, Western Australia / Noongar Boodja. He currently lives in Seattle / Duwamish Land where he is a student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. In his creative work he plays with place, land, and ecosystems. He writes for Dispatches Magazine.
Chris Ryan Lauer is an author, artist, and academic in practicum at the University of Washington, with interests in the New York School literary movement, modernism, postmodernism, assemblage, montage, film d’auteur, visual culture, and intersection points between film, literature, and painting. He is recognized for his confessional style of writing & poetry.
Jessica Hagy (MFA, 2019) is the artist and writer best known for her Webby award-winning webcomic, Indexed (www.thisisindexed.com). She is the author of the nonfiction books The Humanist’s Devotional (Freethought House), The Art of War Visualized (Workman), How to Be Interesting (Workman), and Indexed (Viking), the novel One Morning (Tartarus), and the poetry collection Here in Line for Security (Ribbon Pig). How to be Fearless (Sasquatch Books), will be published in 2021 and AETUI: Pentagram Poems (Inside the Castle), will be released in 2022.
Rebecca Brown, Senior Artist in Residence, has published over a dozen books in the U.S. and in translation. She has exhibited visual work in museums and has lectured, read, and performed widely. She collaborates frequently with actors, artists, dancers, and musicians and also curates events. Her most recent book is Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018); other books include American Romances, The Last Time I Saw You, The Dogs, The Gifts of the Body and The Terrible Girls. She wrote regularly for The Stranger. Stranger Genius Award.
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