Hazel Kight Witham ’08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) was named one of the 10 Teachers of the Year by the Los Angeles County Office of Education. A teacher at…
Sue Fagalde Lick ‘03
Sue Fagalde Lick ‘03 (Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had four poems published: “Gopher Tails” in Naugatuk River Review, “Is Anyone Driving to Seal Rock” in the fall…
Kate Maruyama ’09
Kate Maruyama ’09, (Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative writing) will have her new book Family Solstice published by Omnium Gatherum on October 17, 2020. Her novel, Harrowgate was published by…
Transforming the Inner Voice to the Outer Voice
Rachel FrANK It’s my first English class of undergrad and I receive feedback for my first assignment. I see a sea of red ink littered with the dreaded “awk”. “There’s…
Urban League Los Angeles and Antioch University Partner To Provide Mentorship and Scholarships
The Los Angeles Urban League Young Professionals to Mentor Antioch University Students Antioch University and Los Angeles Urban League have partnered to offer scholarships for the members of Los Angeles Urban…
Will the Real Academic Writer Please Stand Up?
Vero Lecocq I stared blankly at a writing placement test, unsure of what it wanted, and wondered who I was kidding. Miraculously, nobody called my bluff, and I was soon…
Consuelo Flores
Consuelo Flores ’06 ’08 (Los Angeles, BA, MFA) was featured by the Los Angeles Times in a cover story about the Chicano Moratorium and its vast 1970 march that ended…
Jake Bailey ‘20
Jake Bailey ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) read his poem, “Hallucinatory Experiment No. 8,” for Illanot Review’s Toxic virtual launch party. Bailey had several poems published including “Portrait…
MFA Alum Susan Southard Publishes Opinion Piece in the Washington Post
Susan Southard, MFA in Creative Writing alum and author of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, published an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the questions Americans ask, and often…
Writing as an Iterative Process
Teresa Hoffman I used to think that I had to complete a perfect paper when I first sat down to write. That mindset made me defensive and unresponsive to critical…
Remembering Alum Bettina Gilois
On July 5, 2020, Antioch MFA alum Bettina Gilois, who was battling cancer, died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles. Part of the Zephyr class of 2016,…
The Balancing Act
Madison Dell This past quarter, I felt more like a professional juggler than a student. There were more balls in the air than usual and as I struggled to maintain…