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Sports and the arts are often relegated to distant ends of the creative spectrum, if indeed you are generous enough to consider athletes artists. In this lecture former professional athlete and award-winning author, Ivy Pochoda, will discuss the role sports have played in her creative life and how her writing influenced her squash career — and how a collaboration with Kobe Bryant helped her understand the symbiotic link between her two passions.
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2024. These Women was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The Edgar Award, the California Book Award, The Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Wonder Valley won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and France’s Le Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine. Visitation Street won the Prix Page America in France. Her books have been widely translated. Her first novel, The Art of Disappearing was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2009. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times & The Los Angeles Review of Books. With the late Kobe Bryant she is the author of the Epoca series for middle grade readers. She teaches creative writing at the Studio 526 Skid Row and is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside Low Residency MFA Program in Palm Desert.
