Dave Lucas, Ohio’s Poet Laureate, visited Antioch University Midwest reading his poetry and writing. Following the reading, Lucas answered audience questions and shared his ideas of poetry being democratic and…
MFA’s Tananarive Due in the Media
Tananarive Due, faculty in the MFA, Writing & Contemporary Media program in Santa Barbara and at UCLA, was featured in three media pieces in March 2019 on some exciting new…
Welcome to the MFA Citizen, Santa Barbara
The Antioch University MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media program launched the Inaugural issue of its newsletter, the Antioch MFA Citizen, Santa Barbara this month. The newsletter, which will be distributed online…
Remembering Julie LeMay
by Kolleen Carney I met Julie LeMay in a poetry workshop at Antioch University in Los Angeles in 2011. Kind and caring, Julie was a true friend and a lovely…
Voices of Antioch: LA Times Festival of Books 2019
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” – Horace Mann Festival of Books at USC campus on Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, April 14th. Students…
Why Perfect Sentences Don’t Matter
Katryna (Katie) Kibler When I began grad school my writing was rusty and feedback on papers was matter-of-fact—like “write in active voice”—and often included edits without explanation. I felt like…
KiKi Reyes
Interview with KiKi Reyes: MFA Alum & the “Mexican Jenna Hamilton” Kiki Reyes is one of the first graduates from AUSB’s MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media program. She talked about…
An Interview with Visiting MFA Faculty Natashia Deón
Antioch LA Visiting MFA Faculty in fiction, Natashia Deón, is a NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace. Awarded the 2017 American Library Association’s Black Caucus Award Winner for Best…
Victoria Chang Awarded MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Core poetry faculty in the AULA MFA in Creative Writing program, Victoria Chang, was recently awarded a Macdowell Colony fellowship, which was announced in January in an article in ARTFORUM….
Narratives in Landscape: Steve Heller and Don Strauss Discuss Story and Sustainability
Steve Heller, chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, and Don Strauss, founding chair of the Urban Sustainability Masters Program, presented together at the Hawai`i International Conference on the Arts &…
An Essay within an Essay
Teresa Hoffman The light-bulb clicked on while I was revising a paper for an English Literature class. I was making a case for why computer programming is not a good…
Writing in a Second Language
Sarah Smith Writing in a second language can be frustrating and overwhelming. When I lived in Brazil, I took classes that required me to do some writing in Portuguese. This…