Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist

Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading:

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript, Origin of Drowning, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine.

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. His first book, Unaccompanied, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, Fall 2017.

This event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies.

Free and open to the public.

For more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213