School of Critical Studies

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance artworks including Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023), Translated Bodies (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022),... Continue reading »

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen and a half books of fiction, most recently the story collections The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (Coffee House Press, 2021) and None of You Shall Be Spared (Weird House Press, 2023),  and the Weird West micro-collection Black... Continue reading »

Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was... Continue reading »

Muriel Leung is the author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) and other collections that include the 2022 Poetry Society of America's Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone... Continue reading »

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of five collections of poetry including I am the dead, who, you take care of me (Wave Books, 2023) and Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014). His non-fiction book Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the... Continue reading »

Chris Santiago is the author of Tula, selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize, and Small Wars Manual (Milkweed Editions, 2025). The recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, Kundiman, and the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, he received his PhD from... Continue reading »