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Three graduates of the UC Davis Creative Writing Program will return to campus virtually to read from their books published last year.

Megan Kaminski (M.A., English, ’05) is author of three poetry collections, the most recent titled Gentlewomen. An essayist as well as a poet, her writing has been published in the American Poetry Review, The Atlantic and other publications.

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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi (M.A., English, ’11) is author of the novels The Book of Kane and Margaret, published in 2020, and Disintegration Made Plain and Easy. He also is a widely published poet.

Becky Mandelbaum (M.A., English, ’16) won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the High Plains Book Award for First Book for her story collection Bad Kansas. Her new book is The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals. Her work has appeared in One Story, The Sun, Prairie Schooner and other publications.