FEATURED GRADUATE POETS IN SPRING 2008

CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Gućhan (Guam), is the co-founder of Achiote Press and author of two chapbooks, constellations gathered along the ecliptic (Shadowbox Press, 2007) and all with ocean views (Overhere Press, 2007). His first book, from Unincorporated Territory, is forthcoming this year from Tinfish Press. His poetry, essays, fiction, reviews and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Sentence and Rain Taxi, among others.

TRANG CAO collects keys with incongruent teeth. Born in Saigon and raised in Toronto, she is a translator of the mixed-bag collection of poems, Spokes of Light: Five Vietnamese Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Existere: Journal of Literary Arts, Contemporary Verse 2, and Excalibur. A graduate of York University's Creative Writing and English programs, she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in UC Berkeley's South and Southeast Asian Studies department.

MARISA LIBBON is a graduate student in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

ANGIE YUAN studies late imperial and modern Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Boston Review, FENCE and A Public Space. She lives in San Francisco.

FEATURED GRADUATE POETS IN AUTUMN 2007

CHARITY KETZ is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Cornell and the recipient of fellowships from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has published a chapbook, Locust in Bloom, through Poet's Corner Press, and has poems forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, and Artful Dodge.

SOOKYOUNG LEE comes from the Philly area, the great state of New Jersey, and Seoul. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and is currently a graduate student in the English department at UC Berkeley.

MICHAEL BIGLEY has published, under the surname Zbigley, in Poems Niederngasse, Stickman Review, Triplopia, Gin Bender, Stirring and various other online journals. He has, under his natural surname, also received an MFA from the University of Montana.

GILLIAN OSBORNE Before arriving in Berkeley, where she is now a graduate student in the English Department, Gillian Kidd Osborne grew up beside the Hudson River, worked in a bookstore in Paris, finished a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and taught high school English in Japan.  Her poetry has appeared in the Threepenny Review.  


FEATURED GRADUATE POETS IN SPRING 2007

JILL RICHARDS is from Lubbock, Texas. She received her B.A. in English and French literature from New York University in 2006. Prior job titles include librarian, cocktail waitress, bridge caddy, standardized test-writer, personal assistant, typist, and translator. She is a graduate student in the UC Berkeley English department.

RACHEL BECK is a a graduate of Lawrence University and the University of Iowa. She has published poems in Calyx, Lilliput, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and the teaching anthology In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare. She is currently a graduate student in the English program at UC Berkeley.

COLIN DINGLER is a native of the Bay Area. He attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and received his BA in Rhetoric in 2003. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Rhetoric. His other interests include architecture, psychogeography and aquatics.

JENNIFER REIMER grew up in the borderlands of Southern California. She has a B.A. in English from New York University (2002) and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco (2005). Her work has appeared in Commenweal, St. Ignatian Literary Review and Denver Syntax (forthcoming with Craig Perez). She is the co-founder of Achiote Press. She is a graduate student in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley where she spends most of her time dreaming about adventure travel and wine.

FEATURED GRADUATE POETS IN AUTUMN 2006

MEGAN PUGH was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She has worked as a cheese specialist, baker, and oral historian. She received her B.A. in American Studies from Yale, and is currently a graduate student in the UC Berkeley English department.

YOSEFA RAZ was born in Be'er Sheva and raised in Jerusalem. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Tikkun Magazine, Glimmer Train, and gumballpoetry.com. Her first collection of poetry, In Exchange for a Homeland, was published in 2004 by Swan Scythe Press. She is currently a student in the GTU-UC Berkeley Joint Doctoral program in Jewish Studies.

DIMITER KENAROV was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. His first book of poems (in Bulgarian) received the Yuzhna Prolet/Literaturen Vestnik National Award in 2001 for best debut by a young writer. His English language poetry and journalism has appeared in The New England Review, The Virginia Quarterly Reveiw, and The Gettysburg Review. Most recently, he translated the selected poems of Elizabeth Bishop into Bulgarian.

MIA YOU was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Northern California. She has translated Korean poetry into English and worked in various film and publishing related jobs. She is a graduate student in the UC Berkeley English Department.