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 Ryler Dustin Analicia Sotelo Eric Howerton Mari Jorgensen Eric Kocher Russel Swensen Will Donnelly Briana Olson Rebecca Wadlinger
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Through a collaboration with Houston’s Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast is
proud to present ten readers this fall and winter from the University of Houston’s
nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing.
All readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005.
October 9, 2009
Eric Howerton is a PhD candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. He received his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and a couple of undergraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico. His short fiction, journalism, and verbal tantrums have appeared in a variety of publications of ill repute. He eagerly awaits publications of even iller repute to drag themselves ashore so that he might find homes for his longer work.
Analicia Sotelo is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Houston. She received her BA in English literature from Trinity University. She is from San Antonio, Texas, where she lived for many years until her epic move to Houston. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM.
Ryler Dustin helped establish Bellingham, Washington's Basement Poetry Series, which brought together local authors and touring slam poets. He is former co-editor of the literary magazine Jeopardy and author of Heavy Lead Birdsong, which earned him a Pushcart nomination. He's been a finalist in the World Poetry Slam and is AWP slam champion, for which he was awarded a crown of cardboard and paperclips.
November 13, 2009
Mari Jorgensen, currently a third-year fiction writer in Houston's PhD program, received her MFA from Vermont College. Her stories and essays have appeared in Sunstone, BYU Studies, and elsewhere. This summer she went on a self-imposed writing retreat to California, interrupted only by a stint teaching at the Boldface Writers' Conference. Her children, ages 11 and 7, are somehow under the impression she is already a published novelist. Their state of perpetual delusion keeps her writing.
Eric Kocher is a second-year poet in the MFA program at the University of Houston. His work has recently appeared in DIAGRAM, H_ngm_n, RATTLE, Sixth Finch, and Third Coast. This past summer, he worked at the University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop, where he taught songwriting.
Russel Swensen received his BA in English from the University of Utah and an MFA in Writing from The California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in the L.A. Weekly, American Poet, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston
January 22, 2010
Will Donnelly is a second-year PhD student, writing instructor, and fiction writer at the University of Houston. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, the Potomac Review, Quick Fiction, and Jump! Magazine. He grew up in Gainesville, Florida.
Briana Rochelle Olson is a second-year fiction student in the University of Houston's MFA program. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, she holds a BA from the University of Washington. Her writing has appeared in Pindeldyboz and The American Drivel Review.
Rebecca Wadlinger has worked in intaglio printmaking, editing, and Norwegian translation. She comes to Houston from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, where she organized and operated a medical equipment lending library to redistribute prostheses and other medical necessities. Her poetry can most recently be found in Anti-, The Cimarron Review, and the Best New Poets anthology.
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