Student Writers

A sad and dying breed (aren't we all sad and dying?), these people give up most of their lives to type, scribble, and mutter nonsense to themselves into a form of writing. Often times they give up going to the hip party in order to sneak themselves into the dark recesses of their room and scribble away manuscript after manuscript. Or maybe they don't get invited to hip parties so they just wander around aimlessly until they get bored and sit at their desk to write crap about how lonely and isolated they are. Many of them are egotists it seems. Many of them are not it seems. Many of them have been published in all sorts of great venues, but they shouldn't be confused with Noteworthy Published Authors. So, who are these crazy folks?

*Descriptions will be added eventually. Feel free to add your own, if you're on here. (or add yourself—ALPHABETICALLY!)

• Joe Anderson:

• Brian Ang: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Poetry in 2008 and a UC Davis Undergraduate Fellowship from The Tomales Bay Workshops in 2007

• Kate Asche:

• Remi Barrett:

• Andrew Behjatnia:

• Jennifer Beukelman:

• Susan Calvillo:

• Lani Chan:

• Tristen Chang:

• Aaron Davidson:

• Cristina Deptula: I've been writing creatively on and off my whole life, ever since my first construction-paper books at age three or four. I mainly do poetry but have a few short novels completed, as well as my first official rejection slip from a publisher, which my mom says I should frame. I've also done some scientific and technical writing for the Aggie, which I hope to do professionally for bread and butter while I continue my literary stuff. If anyone would like to chat with another writer for support feel free to write me at cedeptula@ucdavis.edu and I'll get back to you.

• Constante P. Firme: is an undergrad student at UCD who has recently written a book called Death's Memoirs, a collection of prose and poetry that looks at Death as a personified character. He recently gave a presentation at the Avid Reader, and his books are still available there. He donated money from the sales of his books on the night of his presentation to Calpirg's Hunger Cleanup.

• Koji Frahm: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Fiction in 2008

• Michael Giardina: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Fiction in 2005 and for Poetry in 2006

• Uyen Hua: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Poetry in 2007

• Emily Hughes:

• Michelle Jackson: Winner of The Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize in 2007 and The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Fiction in 2007

• Elise Kane:

• Devon Larsen:

• Geoffrey Mak:

• Kate Mallison:

• Chino Mayrina:

• Carolyn Miller-Lopez:

• Teresa Pham:

• Rob Roy:

• Anna Rozzi:

• Melissa R. Smith:

• Sam Spieller: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Fiction in 2005

• Cora Stryker: Winner of The Poet Laureate Award in 2007

• J. Dana Stuster:

• em crowl: A frequent reader at the open mic events on and off-campus. His best piece to date—The Glorious Amputee—can be found on the Nameless Magazine website. His strengths lie in prose and fiction, but that does not mean he is above writing the occasionally god awful poem. He has successfully been rejected by the Antioch Review and has the rejection slipped tucked away somewhere safe.

• Annie Wang:

• Jayne S. Wilson:

• James Wooden: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Poetry in 2008

• James Xiao: Winner of The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing for Fiction in 2006

• Katherine Tang Ngo: A freshman at UCD, she's writes mostly strange things that bring joy to her heart, such as men dancing and dying in showers, Shanghai in the 1930s, and bras. Katherine enjoys writing both fiction and non-fiction, and has won several awards for her sensational, world-changing, and eccentric writing in the past. She is also very modest.