The Creative Writing Series invites you to an evening with MFA program alumni Zack Darsee and Elise Houcek. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore will be on site with copies of the authors' books available for purchase.
Zack Darsee (they/he) is the author of the chapbook BELL LOGIC (Spiral Editions), and pamphlets Efflorescence in Stucco (Earthbound Press) and Anzündkind (Creative Writing Department). Their collaborative book with Elise Houcek, From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson, a lysergic neo-noir poet's novel, is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in 2025. Recent poetic work has appeared online and in print in Blush Lit, Tagvverk, Annulet, Community Mausoleum, Works & Days, and Grotto Journal, among other journals. Together with Nadia Marcus, they are the co-founder of TABLOID Press, a publishing initiative grounded in the poetics of the local. They teach poetry workshops in various arrangements of community in Berlin, Germany, and at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. More at zoedarsee.com.
A writer, artist, teacher, and caregiver, Elise Houcek is the author of the book TRACTATUS (Spuyten Duyvil), as well as a chapbook, So Neon Was the Rope (dancing girl press), and a pamphlet, The Leafs (Creative Writing Department). Her collaborative poet’s novel, From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson, was cowritten with Zack Darsee and is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in 2025. Recent writing has appeared in FENCE, Diva Corp, R&R Magazine, Vestiges, new_sinews and elsewhere in print and online. Her work has been supported by residencies from Art Farm and a fellowship from the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Environmental Education. She teaches writing to kids and runs Ludi Juvenales, a poetry, art and games series publishing the immature work of established writers.