Cristina Medina ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) was selected as a finalist for North America Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize by Guest Judge Ilya Kaminsky for her poem “Etymology of a…
Steve Langford ’19
Steve Langford ’19 (Santa Barbara, MFA) sold another episode to the TV series, Creepshow.
Julia Caroline Knowlton ’19
Julia Caroline Knowlton ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) depicts survival from illness and sexual violence, and also paints a portrait of the artist striving to find living, literary mothers and sisters…
Diane Gottlieb ’19
Diane Gottlieb ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her essay “Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)” published in Hippocamus Magazine.
Barbara Fant ’19
Barbara Fant ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her poem, “My Dad Buried Two Dogs in the Backyard,”selected as the Poem-a-Day on July 29, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.
Erica Charis-Molling ’19
Erica Charis-Molling ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) published an essay, “On Endurance,” in Vida.
Kate Carmody ’19
Kate Carmody ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) received a $1,000 grant from the CINTAS Foundation to support artists born in Cuba or of Cuban descent.
Kaya Arnoux ’19
Kaya Arnoux ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had three poems published in Tinderbox Poetry; two poems published in The Seventh Wave; and “a diagnosis of our daughter’s sleep apnea” published in…
Becca Wild ’18
Becca Wild ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) had a story, “The Astronaut’s Girlfriend,” published in Waxwing.
Jesus Sierra ’18
Jesus Sierra ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published the essay “Expiring Candles” in Solstice.
Colin MacKenzie Mitchell ’18
Colin MacKenzie Mitchell ’18 (Santa Barbara, MFA) signed a deal with IHeartMedia to produce, write, and direct a season of his own original scripted podcast series The Laundronauts: A Potentially…
Jessica O’Dwyer ’18
Jessica O’Dwyer ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published Mother Mother (2020). A married couple in California grapples with power and race, deception and love when their son comes home from a…