Author Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi will visit the Wake Forest University campus on March 23, 2023, for a public reading followed by a reception and book signing. This event is sponsored by the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading series.

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi was many times a community college student, twice a transfer student, twice an undergrad, once an experimental college student, and twice a grad student before figuring out what he wanted to be as a grown-up. Kiik is currently an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Washington University, and he is the author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (1913 Press) and The Book of Kane and Margaret (FC2 / UAP). He is excited to talk with Wake Forest writers about first-year and transfer student transitions, creative writing practice, poetry, fiction, speculative fiction, submitting work for publication, graduate school preparation, and graduate school survival.