UC IRVINE MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK 2016

The UC Irvine MFA Reading Series is a program that provides current graduate students in fiction and poetry the opportunity to showcase their work to an audience of their peers and the greater community of Southern California.

The reading will feature pieces by poets  Stefan Karlsson and Sarah Peace, and fiction writers Lara Fitzjerrald and William Hawkins. 

Lara Fitzjarrald likes rivers and birds. She has a daughter who has two kittens. They're all from California.

Sarah Peace is from Geneseo, New York. She received her B.A. in English from SUNY Fredonia, where she also studied writing and dance. 

Stefan Karlsson is a poet from Redlands, California. He completed his undergraduate studies at UCLA, where he served as editor for the literary journal, Westwind. His poems have appeared in The Great American Literary Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, and CIRCLE Poetry Journal.

William Hawkins is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His most recent publication, "Grandma's Sex Robot", can be found on Tinhouse.com.