National Poetry Series-winning poet and novelist Sam Sax (Madness, Bury It, Yr Dead) reads from their work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases seniors in the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.

This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.

About the author:

Sam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. Their most recent book is the debut novel Yr Dead (McSweeney’s, 2024) which Kirkus called “profoundly original” in a starred review. Their most recent book of poems is Pig (Simon & Schuster, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry. Sax is author of Madness, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion, they have poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Granta, and elsewhere. Sax has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, Lambda Lit, and MacDowell and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University.