The University Library is happy to welcome to campus our first two writers-in-residence of 2025-2026 under the Hellenic Research Fellowship Program! Anna Moschovakis is an award-winning New York-based writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her most recent book is An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, a Novel (Soft Skull, 2024). Her current project is (tentatively) titled The Seventh Book, or, Prudence and Elektra in '24, a book of fiction containing elements of research-based nonfiction and autobiography significantly rooted in Greek (especially Athenian and Cretan) culture and history, as well as histories of migration and exile from these places to California and Utah. More specifically, the areas of research include folk music, women's experiences, mining, labor struggles, herbal-medicinal knowledge, and the effects of trauma through generational and geographic shifts. More on Anna can be found at https://badutopian.com/.
We also welcome Alexandra Kostoulas, an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction, and journalism based in San Francisco. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. Her most recent book of poetry is titled Leaving Los Angeles, the third collection in a trilogy about a young poet's coming-of-age. Her current project is titled Persephone Stolen, a return novel centered on a modern retelling of the Persephone myth that weaves in themes of Greek-American identity, the Persephone myth, intergenerational matriarchy and stolen artifacts in a magical realism-infused story about a young woman named Persephone who goes on a quest to save her family home from foreclosure and ends up in an unexpected place. More on Alexandra can be found at https://www.alexandrakostoulas.com/.
Anna and Alexandra will give a joint reading of their works in progress on Friday, Mar. 27, 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Sacramento Poetry Center (1719 25th Street). The reading is free and open to the public, and limited free onsite and street parking are available.