Kate Durbin, Carribean Fragoza, Stephen van Dyck
The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading with
KATE DURBIN
CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA
& STEPHEN van DYCK
Saturday, November 6
7:30pm
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Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer, and the author of four books, the most recent of which is Hoarders (Wave). Hoarders received press from The Atlantic, NPR's Morning Edition, and The Believer, among others. She is the recipient of a international Turn On Literature Prize for electronic literature for her poetry app, ABRA, and has twice served as poet-in-residence for Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane Australia.
The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts. She co-edits UC Press's acclaimed California cultural journal, Boom California, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published earlier this year by City Lights and has received acclaim from the New York Times as well as the New York Journal of Books. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte covers over 300 years of her hometown's history, and was published by Rutgers University Press. It was named one of the 10 best books about California by the LA Times. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, Electric Lit, LitHub, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, and the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as ArtNews and Aperture Magazine. She is a senior writer at Tropics of Meta. Carribean lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County with her husband and their two daughters.
Stephen van Dyck is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist, and an MFA graduate of Integrated Media, Critical Studies, and Experimental Sound Practices at CalArts. His first book, People I've Met From the Internet, came out in 2019 on Ricochet Editions. Van Dyck's work has been written about in Zyzzyva Magazine, The Gay & Lesbian Review, the LA Weekly, the LA Review of Books, Hyperallergic, on Dennis Cooper's blog, and elsewhere. Van Dyck has performed and presented work at LACMA, MOCA, LACE, Human Resources, and elsewhere.
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Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.