Alisha Escobedo’s ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) poems, “disclaimer to marie in the britney spears t-shirt” and “After Demi Lovato’s 2020 GRAMMY’s Performance,” appeared in The Acentos Review’s…
Jose Hernandez Diaz ‘15
Jose Hernandez Diaz ‘15 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had his poem, “Almost Buried,” published in Poem-a-Day, four poems published in Chiricú Journal, and his poems, “Making Tamales with…
Bonnie Lee Black ‘07
Bonnie Lee Black’s ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) book, Sweet Tarts for My Sweethearts: Stories & Recipes from a Culinary Career, was published by Nighthawk Press.
The Best We Can for Today
John Dunham When I sit down to write lately, hemmed in by COVID and various levels of quarantine, I don’t feel focused or productive. How do I write when everything…
Sarah Haas ‘20
Sarah Haas ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) review, “Justice by Seeing: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina,” appeared in The Rumpus. Haas’s piece, “A Toy, a Tool, a Piece…
Kate Maruyama ’09
Kate Maruyama’s (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) story, “Footprint,” was published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Maruyama’s piece, “Writing Hope in Times of Trouble,” appeared in Asimov‘s blog From Earth to the Stars. Maruyama’s piece,…
Erica Charis-Molling ‘19
Erica Charis-Molling’s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) chapbook, “How We Burn,” was a finalist for the 2020 Orison Chapbook Prize.
Melissa Greenwood ‘16
Melissa Greenwood’s ‘16 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) essay, “The Stain,” was nominated for Best Small Fiction by Meow Meow Pow Pow.
Alex Simand ‘16
Alex Simand’s ‘16 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) piece, “How to Write Through a Pandemic,” was nominated for Best Small Fiction by Meow Meow Pow Pow.
Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang, Chair of AULA’s MFA in Creative Writing, has had her fifth book of poems, Obit, selected by Time magazine as one of 100 “Must-Read” books of 2020. The…
Gabriella Souza Emmett ‘19
Gabriella Souza Emmett ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) received the Carlisle Family Scholarship to attend the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop in the summer of 2021.
Erica Charis Molling ’19
Erica Charis Molling ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) produced and launched “In This Place (An American Lyric),” a video featuring recitations of National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and 16 other…