Adrian Matias Bell
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Adrian Matias Bell, MFA. Adrian’s graduate thesis is a literary novel entitled Head.
Adrian is a queer and trans writer and musician who came to UBC from Oakland, California. While in the program, he served as Editor in Chief of PRISM international and enjoyed volunteering every week at the Musqueam Garden. He also worked with Sheryda Warrener on The Provocation Collection, an interdisciplinary pedagogical resource for visual artists and poets. Adrian’s writing has been published or is forthcoming in Echolocation, Qwerty, Protean Mag, and elsewhere, as well as from Girl Dad Press. He also makes music as Nightjars.
Head, Adrian’s first book, is a new adult literary fiction novel. In 2017, in the immediate wake of a sexual assault, Marty arrives at Callahan College and must navigate an increasingly complex web of academic overachievement, queer romance, their own evolving identity, and their desire for violent revenge. Darkly funny and unapologetically queer, Head examines the complexities of identity, community, and what it might actually mean to survive.
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