Zach Howard / September 15 Angie Cruz / October 11 Chuck Austen/ November 3

Zach Howard is a freelance Angie Cruz is a novelist and Chuck Austen (born Chuck Beckum) professional illustrator of 20 editor. Her novel, Dominicana is an American comic book writer years. His most notable employers is the inaugural book pick for and artist, TV writer and animator. In include Marvel, Disney, DC, Warner GMA book club and chosen as the comics industry, he is known for Bros., Image, IDW, Boom, Simon & the 2019/2020 Wordup Uptown his work on , , Schuster, and Steve Jackson Games. Reads. It was shortlisted for The JLA, , and the X-Men Zach’s most popular projects are Women’s Prize, longlisted for franchise. For television, Austen is Hellboy, Wild Blue Yonder, Shaun the Andrew Carnegie Medals for known for co-creating the animated of the Dead, Judge Dredd, Spider- Excellence in Fiction, The Aspen TV series Tripping the Rift, directing Man, X-Men, GI Joe, The Cape, and Detective Comics. He has Words Literary Prize, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of on King of the Hill for FOX, Penn Zero, and Randy Cunningham been nominated for an Eisner Award, multiple Indie awards and the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. The New York Times Book for Disney, and various shows at Nickelodeon, and as a producer received an Amazon Book of the Month selection for Wild Blue Review called it “Lovely and Compelling”. It was named most on ’s Steven Universe (2013). He has also most Forward Yonder. In addition to his professional work, Zach is passionate anticipated/best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, recently served as an Executive Producer on multiple Dreamworks about supporting young artists and has dedicated much of his Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, properties including She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), time to helping nurture the next generation of creators. and Esquire. Cruz is the author of the novels, Soledad and Let Dawn of the Croods, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, as well as a support It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships and producer on Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020). Austen is residencies including the Lighthouse Fellowship, Siena Art currently working with artist Pat Olliffe on his brand new sci-fi series Institute, and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship. Edgeworld released through Comixology. She’s published shorter works in The Paris Review, VQR, Callaloo, LivingWriters Gulf Coast and other journals. She’s the founder and Editor-in- chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix). She’s an Series 2021 Claudia D. Hernández * / September 27 Associate professor at University of Pittsburgh where she teaches Ben Philippe / November 17 Claudia D. Hernández was born Ben Philippe is a New York-based and raised in Guatemala. She’s writer and screenwriter. Born in Haiti a photographer, poet, editor, Laura Donnelly / October 20 and raised in Montreal, Canada, he Events open to Campus and Community. translator, and a bilingual has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia educator residing in Los Angeles. Laura Donnelly’s second University and an MFA from the Claudia D. Hernández will visit the campus Hernández is the author of collection of poetry, Midwest Michener Center for Writers in Knitting the Fog, a finalist for the Gothic, received the Snyder Prize Austin, Texas. He has written two virtually at 7 pm on September 27th. Field Guide to 2020 Firecracker Award in Creative from Ashland Poetry Press and young adult novels: the North American Teenager All other events will be held Nonfiction. She is also an award winning editor for her anthology was published in 2020. Her , winner Charming as a Verb Sure, photography book titled Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary first collection, Watershed, won of the 2020 William C. Morris Award, and . virtually from 3:00-4:20. I’ll Be Your Black Friend Visions, which received the International Latino Book Award the 2013 Cider Press Review is his first book of adult nonfiction. http:// Please visit calendar.oswego.edu in 2019. She is the founder of the ongoing project: Today’s Editors’ Prize. Her poems have benphilippe.com/; Twitter: @gohomeben Revolutionary Women of Color. been published widely in literary and search for the Living Writers Series www.Todaysrevolutionarywomenofcolor.com to find the virtual link. magazines, and her work has been awarded a Provost Award Claudia holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University at SUNY Oswego and fellowships from Yaddo, the Sewanee Los Angeles. Various online literary journals and anthologies Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. Originally from Michigan, throughout the United States, the UK, Canada, Mexico, she has an MFA in poetry from Purdue University and a PhD Visiting Writers are supported by ARTSwego and are Guatemala, and Spain have published her work. Claudia is the in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Before made possible by the Student Arts Fee. To see a full recipient of the 2018 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. graduate school, she worked as a waitress, a piano teacher, an rundown of ARTSwego programing visit www.oswego. www.Claudiadhernandez.com accompanist, and (briefly) a baseball scorekeeper. She now edu/arts teaches at SUNY Oswego where she serves as Director of the *Note: Claudia D. Hernández will visit the campus virtually at 7 pm. 145 Marano Campus Center, SUNY Oswego Creative Writing Program. oswego.edu/careerservices