MFA Programs in Writing present readings by alumni
A.M. Sosa, Meriwether Clarke, and Lisa Alvarez
Light refreshments and book sale at the event
All are welcome to join!
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Humanities Gateway 1030
@5:30pm
A.M. Sosa is a queer Mexican-American writer from Stockton, CA, and a graduate of UC Irvine's MFA Programs in Writing where they were awarded the 2022 Henfield Prize. They have received support from Tin House, Community of Writers, and the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. Their debut novel, And I'll Take Out Your Eyes was published by Algonquin, and their fiction has been published in Zyzzyva and the Santa Monica Review.
Meriwether Clarke’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, The Rumpus, Cimarron Review, Seneca Review, The Journal, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.
A graduate of UC Irvine’s Programs in Writing and Northwestern University, she has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, the Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook, twenty-first century woman, was released by Dancing Girl Press in 2019. Her debut full-length collection, Body Memory, will be released by Unsolicited Press in October 2025. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Lisa Alvarez’s poetry and prose have appeared in journals including About Place Journal, Air/Light, Anacapa Review, Citric Acid, Huizache, Santa Monica Review, and in anthologies such as Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (Norton) and most recently, Rumors, Secrets and Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion and Choice (Anhinga Press) and Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press.) A professor of English at Irvine Valley College, in the summers, she co-directs the writers workshops at the Community of Writers in California's High Sierra. Her debut collection, Some Final Beauty and other stories, was published in August 2025 by the University of Nevada Press’s New Oeste imprint.