Éireann Lorsung (left) and Chloe Martinez By Caitlin Antonios In Scripps College’s Hampton Room above Malott Commons on a spring Thursday afternoon, white banners with stark black lettering decorated the […]
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Lauren Mar ’25 By Emily Glory Peters Lauren Mar ’25’s earliest memory of Scripps College is of community. During her first night on campus back in 2021, she found herself […]
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Scripps’ 2024 Mary Routt Chair of Writing is Mary-Alice Daniel, an award-winning, cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border and raised in England and Tennessee.
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“I wanted to write a book that was about friendship and identity,” Ho said.
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“Writing is a solitary activity, but finding community in like-minded thinkers and readers can be so wonderful in the writing process,” Ho says. “In all my classes, I want students to gain a greater sense of themselves and their own work, to learn how to see themselves more clearly and with more careful attention.”
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Author Rachel Kushner, who served as the 2018 Mary Routt Chair of Writing, reflected on her sources of artistic inspiration in the New York Times.
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For writer Joan Kane, the 2021 Mary Routt Chair in Writing at Scripps, the connection forged between writers and readers is not only vital, but timely. This semester, Kane’s workshop syllabus is focused on themes of archetype and apocalypse across genres, with particular emphasis on works in translation and by Indigenous writers.
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In an op-ed for the New York Times, Spring 2020 Mary Routt Chair of Writing R.O. Kwon reflected on her attempts to write during the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic and the grief she discovered was stymying her writing process. “…because many Americans weren’t talking about grief before the pandemic, we don’t know how to name it, let alone voice it,” Kwon writes.
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Mary Routt Chair of Writing R.O. Kwon discussed writing, teaching, and the experiences she drew on while writing her bestselling debut novel, The Incendiaries, with the Los Angeles Daily News. “For me, with teaching, it’s very much not about trying to evangelize about what I love,” she said.
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The Los Angeles Times featured Scripps Presents’ recent conversation between author R.O. Kwon and NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan in its list of weekly literary highlights.
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