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Creative Writing Teaching Staff

Full-Time Teaching Staff

Julie Cardenas Ryan Griffith

Julie Cardenas

Sacramento native Julie Cardenas co-coordinates Grossmont College’s Puente Program and teaches a variety of subjects for the English Department, including composition, creative writing, and Chicano literature. She also serves as advisor to the student-produced literary journal, Acorn Review, for which she also teaches English 145-148: Acorn Review: Editing and Production. Julie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Spanish from California State University, Sacramento, and a Master’s Degree in English from the University of San Diego. In addition to having served as the faculty advisor of a college newspaper for two years before coming to Grossmont, she edited a variety of professional newsletters and trade journals. Her writing career includes the publication of news and feature articles, poetry, and short fiction. Her writing career includes the publication of news and feature articles, poetry, and short fiction.

Ryan Griffith

Ryan holds an MA degree in Creative Nonfiction from Fresno State and an MFA degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University.  He served as resident storyteller for The Lounge on KPBS radio, where he read from his acclaimed series, The Midnight Pharmacy.  His stories and poems have also appeared in a variety of literary journals, and in 1997 Ryan received the Editor’s Choice prize for best fiction in The Beacon Street Review and an Honorable Mention in the 1995 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. Wigleaf Magazine selected his story “Thrill of Fire” as one of the top fifty short stories of 2012.  During July 2012, he served an artistic residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY, where he worked on a novel, and, during the 2015-2016 school year, Ryan took sabbatical leave to work on his novel while living abroad in Iceland, Russia, Turkey, and other countries. His current project is a multimedia narrative installation, “Relics of The Hypnotist War,” at Space4Art, which has locally received critical acclaim.

Karl Sherlock Daniela Sow

Karl Sherlock

Karl teaches English 140-143: Poetry Writing and co-coordinates the Creative Writing Program at Grossmont College. He holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in Poetry Writing from University of California, Irvine. His queer and disability themed writing has appeared in Cream City Review, Matador Review, Wordgathering, Dickinson Review, Far East: Everything Just As It Is, The Radvocate, James White Review, Assaracus, Lime Hawk, SFWP Quarterly, Embodied Effigies, Easy Street, and others. His memoir, ”Clear,” about his own same-sex marriage and his husband’s reparative therapy experience in the Battlecreek Sanitarium, was a 2014 finalist for Sundress Publication's "Best of the Net.”

Daniela Sow

Daniela is co-coordinator the Grossmont College Creative Writing Program and teaches English 126: Creative Writing. She received her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) from San Diego State University, and her Post-secondary Reading and Learning Certificate from California State University, Fullerton.  Her poetry has been published in San Diego Poetry Annual, A Cappella Zoo, and Encompassing Seas. As a spoken word artist, Daniela has competed in the National Poetry Slam. She also coordinated events as VP of Publicity on the Greater San Diego Council of Teachers of English, celebrating and awarding talented young writers through the annual CATE Creative Writing Contests.

Part-time instructors

Rich Farrell

 

Rich Farrell

Rich teaches English 175-178: Novel Writing. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Farrell earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to leading workshops on narrative for San Diego Writers, Ink, he is the Creative Non-Fiction Editor at upstreet and a Senior Editor at Numéro Cinq. His work, including fiction, memoir, essays, interviews and book reviews, has appeared, or is forthcoming in, Potomac Review, Hunger Mountain, New Plains Review, upstreet, Descant, Contrary, Newfound, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. His first novel, The Falling Woman, is due for release on Algonquin Books.

 

Last Updated: 09/01/2019

Contact

Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours

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