John O. Waller Lectureship on the Arts

Craig van Roojen presents "Shame Healing: Poetry and Incarnation"

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Craig van Rooyen is a poet and a judge in San Luis Obispo, California. He graduated from Andrews University with a BA in journalism in 1990, then worked as a newspaper reporter before attending law school. He graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1996 and worked as a prosecutor and civil litigator before being appointed to the bench by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016—the same year he graduated with an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere. He is a past winner of the Rattle Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award and is currently Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of California, San Luis Obispo County.