Look at Us: Point of View Changes Everything

Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required. 

This course will be co-taught by UCLA Extension Instructor Natashia Deón and special guest Chiwan Choi. 

Chiwan Choi is a poet, editor & publisher. He was born in Seoul, Korea. He immigrated to Paraguay at the age of five and shortly thereafter to the United States. He earned an MFA at New York University. In his work, Choi engages themes of community, racism, exile, and family. He is the author of five books – The Flood, the Daughter Trilogy: Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012), The Yellow House (CCM, 2017) & my name is wolf (2023) – and Sky Songs. He wrote, presented & destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015, as part of his ongoing examination on the meaning of a book, of conjuring & nurturing of ghosts. Chiwan has published his poetry, fiction & essays in numerous journals and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Poem-A-Day and many other publications. Chiwan has been the subject of features on KCET, LA Weekly & the OTHRPPL podcast. He was a librettist for the opera Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands, produced by Overtone Industries. Chiwan is also the creator and host of the paranormal literary podcast, Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan and partner at the literary laboratory Writ Large Projects.

This course meets in person at the designated class meeting time and location in person. Students must be present at the course meeting time in person to participate in this course.