🌟 Presented by the Department of Middle Easta/South Asia Studies, UC Davis Department of English, Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts Program, and the UC Davis Library.

Please join us for the next event in the 2025-2026 Creative Writing Series: a poetry reading and Q&A featuring poet, essayist and zine-maker Summer Farah!

This event is free and open to all, and will be available in person and livestreamed. Please use this link to register to attend virtually.
 

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of The Hungering Years (Host Publications, 2026) and the chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024). Her essay "From Witness From Speech From Image: On Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee" received a 2025 Krause Essay Prize honorable mention. Summer is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
 

This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Middle East/South Asia Studies.
 

The Creative Writing Series is presented by the UC Davis Department of English, Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts Program,
and the UC Davis Library.

The views expressed in this series, including descriptions and biographies, are those of the speakers and not meant to represent the views of any other person or institution.