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Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence

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The Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence program honors beloved Creative Writing MFA alumnx Katie Jacobson (class of 2010) for her notable dedication to public literary engagement in Los Angeles. Thanks to the generous support of Katie’s family, the Creative Writing program is able to celebrate her memory each year by bringing a writer of great influence to campus and to the REDCAT theater in downtown Los Angeles for a lecture, a public reading and two days of intimate workshops with Cal Arts Creative Writing MFA students.

Upcoming events

  • Lecture / Reading School of Critical Studies

    The MFA Program in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts is thrilled to present Eileen Myles, the 2025 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence. Myles (they/them b. 1949) is a poet, novelist, memoirist and art journalist, whose practice of resolutely embodied, vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized and deeply influential writers of their generation.

    Fri, Jan 17 / 7:00 PM

    CalArts Campus