An Honors College Reading with Craig Santos Perez

In fall 2018, the University of San Francisco will launch an Honors Collegethat helps top students become global citizens equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Please join us for this pre-launch event featuring a reading from USF alumnus Craig Santos Perez ’06, MFA in Writing.

Craig Santos Perez is the author of four collections of poetry, including from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017), from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and winner of the PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Award, and from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014), winner of the 2015 American Book Award. He is the co-founder of Ala Press and co-editor of two anthologies: Chamoru Childhood (2009) and Home Islands (2015). A native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guam, Perez lives in Hawaii, where he is an Associate Professor of English and affiliated with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. Perez is an alumnus of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.