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The UC Davis Creative Writing Program presents Fig & Axle, a graduate student reading series.
This Fig & Axle reading will feature three graduate student creative writers, Gerardo Lamadrid Castillo, Laura Frater, and Jennifer Thornton, followed by an open mic. Three minutes per person at the open mic. Sign up at the event - all are welcome!
Gerardo Lamadrid Castillo is a second-year MFA student, born and raised in Caguas, Puerto Rico. They earned their bachelor’s degree from Vassar College, where they won the Imbrie Prize in Fiction. Last year, here in Davis, they won the Gilbert Prize in Poetry. Gerardo is a contributor for the Buscapié column in El Nuevo Día.
Jennifer R. Thornton is a fiction writer from California's Central Valley. She's currently in her second year of the UC Davis Creative Writing MFA, and working on a collection of short stories that borrow from horror, science fiction, and the fantastic to explore how people treat each other in a world filled with cataclysm.
Laura Frater is a 2nd year PhD student and MFA student in the UC Davis English Department. She studies Federal Indian Law, and stories of missing people on and around reservations in North America. Her poetry has most recently appeared in LitStream Magazine, and she has also been published in The Museum Review. Born and raised in Scotland, she completed her BA at King’s College London, and her MA at Iona College, New York.