Craig Santos Perez, an Indigenous Chamoru author from the Pacific Island of Guam and author of five poetry books, reads from his work along with senior students in the Program in Creative Writing.

The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s creative writing faculty for 20 years, showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.

Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez, an Indigenous Chamoru author from the Pacific Island of Guam, is the author of five poetry books and the co-editor of five anthologies. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco and a Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He works as a professor in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa.