The English Department and Leatherby Libraries are excited to present this year’s virtual Pub(lishing) Crawl event on April 20-22 featuring guests Ellen Datlow, Marina Markossian, Adam Martinez, and keynote speaker Kimiko Hahn. Registration is required, and all registrants will be automatically entered in a raffle to win a free book.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Ellen Datlow has been editing genre short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year series and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards, plus the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre" and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the East Village.

 

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including Foreign Bodies, Brain Fever, and Toxic Flora, collections prompted by science. The Unbearable Heart received an American Book Award, and Earshot was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. At CUNY, she initiated a Chapbook Festival and has published nine chapbooks, including Dovetail, a collaboration with Tamiko Beyer. Other collaborations include independent films and visual arts projects. Hanh’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts. From 2016-2019, Hahn was President of the Board of Governors for Poetry Society of America. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York, and has taught for the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and Kundiman. She and true crime writer Harold Schechter make their home in New York.

A.D. Martinez is a Xicano musician, poet, writer, and professor of English at Chaffey College. Creatively, Martinez engages with themes of identity, trauma, mental health, love and more. As an educator, Martinez is indebted and forever grateful to Hip-Hop and rap music—rocking hundreds of shows in his decade-long career prepared him for the stage that is the classroom. As a writer and poet, Martinez is the co-founder of digital literary zine, Pour Vida. His first poetry manuscript Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual, was the 2019 Inlandia Institute Hillary Gravendyk Regional Winner and will be published later this year. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University.

CHAPMAN GUESTS

Jim Blaylock is a pioneer of steampunk and author of heaps of novels and short stories. He is Assistant Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Chapman University and former director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts. See more at jamespblaylock.com. 

Marrissa Childs is an MFA in Creative Writing student at Chapman University, where she also serves as an MFA Program Assistant.

Allison DeVries holds an MA in Organizational Leadership and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communication. As part of the Wilkinson College Dean’s Office at Chapman University, she has served as Graduate Programs Coordinator and is Manager of Grants Development and Administration.

Elena Goodenberger is an MFA in Creative Writing student at Chapman University, where she also serves as an MFA Program Assistant.

Anna Leahy is the author of the poetry books What Happened Was:, Aperture, and Constituents of Matter and of the nonfiction book Tumor. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University and edits the international Tab Journal. See more at amleahy.com.

Joanna Levin is Chair of English at Chapman University. She is the author of Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 and co-editor of Walt Whitman in Context.

Event Schedule

Tuesday, April 20

3:30 p.m. Publishing & Editing

Renowned Editor Ellen Datlow

moderated by Professor Jim Blaylock & Marrissa Childs (MFA '21)

 

4:30 p.m. Community College Teaching

Marina Markossian (MA 'YR) & Adam Martinez (MFA 'YR),

moderated by Dr. Ian Barnard & Marrissa Childs (MFA '21)

 

5:30pm Keynote: Kimiko Hahn Award-Winning Poet Kimiko Hahn

moderated by Dr. Anna Leahy & Marrissa Childs (MFA '21)

 

Wednesday, April 21

4:00 p.m. Grants, Fellowships, & Residencies Allison DeVries, Manager of Grant Development & Administration at Wilkinson College

moderated by Dr. Anna Leahy & Elena Goodenberger (MFA '21)

 

Thursday, April 22

4:00 p.m. Applying to PhD Programs

English Department Chair Dr. Joanna Levin & MFA Director Dr. Anna Leahy

moderated by Elena Goodenberger (MFA '21