MFA Poetry Faculty Ari Banias’s next book, A Symmetry, will be published by W. W. Norton in October 2021.
Roberto Lovato ’18
Roberto Lovato’s (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas was selected by the Los Angeles Times on a…
Puzzling the Paper
tiare gill Right now, I’m working on one of the longest papers I’ve ever written. I remember when it was just a wee thing—a handful of written pages with some notes. Back…
Malia Márquez ‘19
Malia Márquez’s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) first novel, This Fierce Blood, will be published by Acre Books in October 2021. Her stories, “A House So Beautiful” was published in Coffin…
Desiree Kannel ’08
Desiree Kannel’s ’08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel Lucky John was published June 2020 by Black Rose Writing and was named a finalist in African American Fiction from…
Kate Maruyama ’09
Kate Maruyama’s ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) blog, “Harvests, Solstices, and Aliens: Genre Fiction and Social Commentary,” appeared in Speculative Fiction Showcase. Her piece, “Dwelling on Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo,” appeared…
An Internal Writing Process
Madeline Schmitt Think about writing my paper. Me: We have a goal and completing this paper can help us achieve it. It’ll be okay. Read the assignment sheet. Me: *breathe* We’re…
Tim Cummings ‘18
Tim Cummings ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) had his short story, Luke De Foncé Du Nuage published in Scare Street’s horror anthology Night Terrors. He was interviewed about writing and the creative…
Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07
Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) published the article The world’s oldest known wild bird just turned 70—why she’s so special, in National Geographic; an essay My Old…
Anna Scotti ‘06
Anna Scotti’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) first book of poems, Bewildered by All This Broken Sky was released by Lightscatter Press on April 30, 2021. It was the winner…
Brad Kessler
Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing Fiction Faculty Brad Kessler’s novel, North, will be published October 5th by Abrams Books.
Marian Blue ‘08
Marian Blue ’08 (Seattle, Communications) recently had her book Sailing off the Hook published by Cyberwit Publishing. This collection of twenty short stories involves characters who abandon traditional methods of…