Science and the Human Endeavor - Speaker Series - Claire Light

Canceled - Claire Light

This event has been canceled

Jan. 19, 2017 | 7 p.m. | Lee Honors College Lounge, WMU 

“Diversity in Science Fiction”

Claire Light is a Bay Area writer and cultural worker. She has worked since 1997 in nonprofit administration, particularly arts in the Asian American community. She co-founded Hyphen magazine, a national Asian American news and culture magazine that’s been in print for 13 years; served as executive director for San Francisco-based, Asian Pacific American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop; and was a board member of diversity-in-speculative-fiction organization the Carl Brandon Society for six years. Her MFA in fiction came from San Francisco State University, and she attended the Clarion West Science Fiction Writers workshop in 2003. Some of her fiction is published in McSweeney's, Hyphen, Farthing, and The Encyclopedia Project, among others, and a collection of her stories, Slightly Behind And To The Left, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2009. She has taught writing to teens, college students, and adults, and occasionally blogs at The Nerds of Color and on her own blog.