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Krista Lukas
- Literary Arts
Krista Lukas writes both prose and poetry. Her stories, essays, and interviews have been published in Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, The Sun, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the author of a poetry collection, Fans of My Unconscious, poems from which have been selected for "The Best American Poetry 2006" and "The Writer’s Almanac."
Born and raised in North Lake Tahoe, Lukas earned her Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, San Diego (1992), and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside (2015). Having completed the coursework for her teaching licenses at University of Nevada, Lake Tahoe, she taught school in Douglas County, Nevada, for over a dozen years. For most of those years, she worked as a gifted-and-talented specialist, teaching in “classrooms” of all kinds (including a storage closet off the multipurpose room). This gave her practice working with audiences—both distracted and attentive—at cafés, colleges, conferences, assisted living facilities, and detention centers in the United States and Europe.
School & community workshops
Add-a-Word Poetry: In this one-session workshop, students will read Gregory Denman’s poem “”Pig”” and review the definition of an adjective. They will participate in writing a class Add-a-Word Poem on a topic of the class’s choice, then write their own poem on a subject of their own choice.
Creativity Blast: In this five-session workshop, students will use various artforms to inspire writing poems or paragraphs. These will include poems by well-known poets such as Miller Williams and Nikki Giovanni, visual art, music by classical or baroque composers, and movement.
The Lyrical List: In this one-session workshop, students will listen to my poem “What’s Best,” the children’s book I Love You the Purplest by Barbara M. Joose, and poems from Carolyn Forché’s In the Lateness of the World. They will participate in the writing of a class poem, and then write their own poems on a subject of their choice.
Alphabet Book: In the multi-session workshop, students will listen to Animalia by Graeme Base, together write a class alliteration on a randomly chosen letter, then write and illustrate their own alliteration on a letter to create a group display and then an alphabet book.
