Leslie Lehr’s ‘05 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) upcoming book, A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me…And You, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.
Shonda Buchanan ‘10
Shonda Buchanan ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) led a generative workshop as part of the California Poets in the Schools Symposium.
Anne Liu Kellor ‘06
Anne Liu Kellor’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, was published September 6, 2021 by She Writes Press. Her essay,…
Marva Hinton ‘10
Marva Hinton ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) interviewed author Deesha Philyaw ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) and author Brian Broome for the Read More podcast.
Jessica O’Dwyer ‘18
Jessica O’Dwyer’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel Mother Mother was a 2021 San Diego Book Awards winner for Published General Fiction, a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist,…
Victoria Chang
MFA Program Chair Victoria Chang’s upcoming book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, was included on Most Anticipated lists by both the Los Angeles Times and Time.
Lowell Blank ‘18
Lowell Blank ‘18 (Santa Barbara, MFA in Writing) recently formed a production company with writer/director Lane Michael Stanley, called Secretly Famous Productions. They will begin production on their 2nd Independent…
Dara Padwo-Audick ‘21
Dara Padwo-Audick’s ‘21 (Santa Barbara, MFA in Writing) short screenplay, The Cardigan, won Best Short Screenplay at the Reale International Film Festival in February in Milan and was just selected…
Two Hawks Quarterly Internship Nurtures Literary Skills
Navigating the world of literary publishing can be tricky. This competitive landscape is most accessible to those who have learned by doing, oftentimes having worked from the ground up in…
Lauren Kinney ‘17
Lauren Kinney ‘17 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) taught a flash fiction workshop for 7th–12th graders this summer for the Austin Library Foundation’s Badgerdog program.
Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07
Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had her story, “Mango Madness,” published in Emerge Literary Journal.
Jeri Frederickson ‘20
Jeri Frederickson’s ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) poem, “A Letter for the Pseudonyms at My Job,” was published in The Purposeful Mayonnaise.