Margaret Anne Kean ’20 (Los Angeles, MFA) had four poems published in the San Antonio Review. Kean’s debut chapbook collection, Cleaving the Clouds, was published by Kelsay Books in 2023.Her…
Cathy Linh Che Joins Antioch MFA as Core Faculty in Poetry
The Antioch MFA in Creative Writing is proud to announce that Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist Cathy Linh Che has joined the MFA in Creative Writing program as Core…
Tom Pyun to Publish Debut Novel
Tom Pyun ‘21 (Los Angeles, MFA) will have his debut novel, Something Close To Nothing, published this fall. The book provides a darkly comedic perspective on a troubled relationship within…
Andromeda Romano-Lax Publishes “The Deepest Lake”
Andromeda Romano-Lax ‘12 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her novel The Deepest Lake published by Soho Crime on May 7, 2024. It was an Editors’ Pick at Amazon and listed as…
Kate Maruyama Featured in Shoutout LA
Kate Maruyama ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) was interviewed by Shoutout LA for the article “Kate Maruyama writes, teaches, edits, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles.” In the article, Maruyama shares…
Peter Nichols Publishes Crime Thriller
Maine author Peter Nichols ‘12 (Los Angeles, MFA) just released his latest crime thriller, “Granite Harbor,” a fictional story based on his own life as a single father living in…
Terry Wolverton Publishes Season of Eclipse
Terry Wolverton, a long-time faculty in Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing program, recently published Season of Eclipse (Bella Books). The thriller, set after a chance encounter with terrorism at JFK,…
Onita Morgan-Edwards and Whitney Bell Publish Anthology
Onita Morgan-Edwards ’17 (Midwest, BA in Management) and Whitney Bell ‘16 (Midwest, MA in Creative Writing) published A Gathering of Flowers: An Anthology in Essay, a collection of essays from…
On Marigolds: Untold Stories For International Romani Day
When I was eleven years old, my paternal grandmother took me to the supermarket to buy a push-up bra, a rotisserie chicken, and introduce me to my culture—my “birthright” as she called it.
She said to me, “Now that you’re older, Gracie m’dear, people are going to start caring about what you have to say about our people. People are going to start asking you questions. It’s important to me that you don’t get it wrong.”
Anna K. Scotti’s Story Selected for Inclusion in Best Mystery Stories
Anna K. Scotti ’06 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her story, “It’s Not Even Past” selected for inclusion in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 (Mysterious Press). This is the…
“I Have No Choice But to Fictionalize” – A Q&A with the writer Anna Dorn
A Q&A with the writer Anna Dorn
To Be a Writer With Grief
Antioch Voices is a forum that allows members of our community to speak about an issue important to them. In this piece, coinciding with Gallbladder Cancer and Bile Duct Cancer Awareness Month, MFA student Stefanie Paredes considers what it means to be a writer with grief.