The °µÍø½ûÇø Department of English is pleased to host Rosie Stockton and Natalie Shapero, who will be sharing their new books of poetry, Fuel and Stay Dead, followed by a conversation moderated by our Writer-in-Residence, Chekwube Danladi.
Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (Nightboat Books 2025) and Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books 2021), which was a finalist for the California Book Awards in Poetry. Recent writing has been published by Lithub, Poetry Society of America, Social Text Journal, Parapraxis Magazine, and Tripwire. They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. Rosie lives and works in Los Angeles.
Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing, Hard Child, and No Object. Her most recent book, Stay Dead, was just long-listed for the National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.
