Charles Harper Webb (’91): Called by Lifescape “Southern California’s most inventive and accessible poet,” Webb has published twelve full-length collections of poetry, including Reading the Water, Liver, Amplified Dog, Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, What Things Are Made Of, Brain Camp, and his latest, Sidebend World, published in 2018 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. His book of essays, A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, was published in 2016 Red Hen Press. Webb’s awards in poetry include the Morse Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollock Prize, and the Benjamin Saltman Prize. His poems and short fictions have appeared in distinguished journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Iowa Review, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Tin House, Poets of the New Century, Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize. He is the editor of Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, and recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim foundation, and the CSULB Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. Ursula Lake is his first novel.