Jamie Cortez — Contemporary Writers Series

Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at the Mills College campus of Northeastern University. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarten: Experimental Writing For Children”, “No Straight Lines,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics, “Street Art San Francisco”, and “Infinite Cities,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003.? His first short story collection, “Gordo,” was published to national acclaim in 2021 by Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press.? Cortez received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MFA in visual art from UC Berkeley.