Brent Armendinger has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where he won an Avery Hopwood Award for his poetry, like his hero, Frank O'Hara. His chapbook, Archipelago, was published in February 2009 by Noemi Press. Another chapbook, Undetectable, is forthcoming from New Michigan Press. His poems have appeared in many journals, including BANG OUT, Digital Artifact, Cut Bank, The Diagram, The Concher, Parthenon West Review, Fourteen Hills, Hayden's Ferry Review, Clave, La Petite Zine, Bird Dog, and Gut Cult. He has taught creative writing and literature at the University of Michigan, City College of San Francisco, and New College of California. Brent has taught poetry at public libraries, neighborhood centers, an HIV service agency, juvenile hall, and a senior center. He is the founder of the Older Writers Laboratory (OWL), a workshop for senior citizens in San Francisco.
Classes in poetry, fiction, autobiography, and creative nonfiction are periodically taught by faculty members throughout the college, including Laura Harris, Jackie Levering Sullivan,and Albert Wachtel.
Our visiting writer for 2009-10 is the novelist Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr was born in Japan, the only child of a Japanese mother and a white American father. She grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and from the age of nine, Los Angeles, and she received her MFA from Cornell University. Nina is the author of three novels, The Necessary Hunger, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming. Her second novel, Southland was a BookSense 76 pick, won the Ferro Grumley and Lambda Literary Awards, and was one of the Los Angeles Times’ "Best Books of 2003." Library Journal has called her new novel, The Age of Dreaming, “Fast-moving, riveting, unpredictable and profound,” and Los Angeles Magazine writes that “Nina Revoyr…is fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and myth-makers.” Nina has taught at Cornell University, Antioch University, and Occidental College; and has worked for more than a decade in the fields of child welfare and public education.
