Creative Writing

Lisa Croce ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published her short story “Paroled” in Obelus Journal.

Jessica Abughattas ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) was the winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her debut poetry collection Strip (2020), a captivating debut about desire and dispossession…

Anna Dorn ’17 (Los Angeles, MFA) has a new novel Vagablonde (2020). It is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a woman who wants…

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda ’16 (Los Angeles, MFA) had his poem “40 por ciento” published in Seattle Escribe’s Poemas para la cuarentena.

Rachel Vogel ’15 (Los Angeles, MFA) published her short fiction “Skinny” in The Harvard Review.

Claudia D. Hernandez ’15 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her memoir, Knitting the Fog (2019), chosen as one of the 15 Great New Books by Latinos for Hispanic Heritage Month by…

Jose Hernandez Diaz ’15 (Los Angeles, MFA) introduces readers to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt in his debut chapbook The Fire Eater: Poems…

Tanya Ko Hong ’13 (Los Angeles, MFA) published The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora (2019), a stunning collection that honors the experiences of Korean and Korean-American women….

Arturo Sande ’12 (Los Angeles, MFA) was featured in Anything Is Possible For Miami Editor With Help From His Mentor on Miami’s CBS affiliate that highlighted his mentorship with South…

Marianne Woods Cironne ’12 (Los Angeles, MFA) provides instruction on how to make yoga sequences safer, more comfortable, and effective in From Alignment to Enlightenment, Using Props to Achieve Stability…

Elizabeth Earley ’11 (Los Angeles, MFA) weaves a philosophical novel with a coming-of-age story in Like Wings, Your Hands (2019), producing a beautiful hybrid work that explores the dynamics of…

Jessica Elisheva ’10 (Los Angeles, MFA) won second place in the 2020 First Pages prize with an excerpt from her novel From the Verb.