• Sarah Manguso

    MFA Affiliate Faculty Sarah Manguso‘s latest book, Very Cold People, was reviewed in The Guardian. 

  • Sharman Apt Russell ‘20

    Sharman Apt Russell‘s ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA) essay, “A Fairly Fed World,” was published in Aeon magazine and Russell’s essay “A Stone in Our Pocket” was published in the anthology First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100 by Torrey House Press.

  • Malia Márquez ‘19

    Malia Márquez‘s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) novel This Fierce Blood won an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal for multicultural fiction.

  • Malia Márquez ‘19

    Malia Márquez‘s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) translation of “Journey” by Alfonsina Storni and the translation note “On ‘Journey’” were published in Poetry Magazine.

  • Nathan Elias ‘18

    Nathan Elias‘s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) novel, Coil Quake Rift, was named a 2022 finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.

  • Erica Charis-Molling ‘19

    Erica Charis-Molling‘s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) book of poetry, How We Burn, was published by Seven Kitchens Press.

  • Jessica O’Dwyer ‘18

    Jessica O’Dwyer‘s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) piece “Perspective” was broadcast on KQED-FM. 

  • Tim Cummings ‘18

    Tim Cummings ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) will teach a class in Middle-Grade Literature for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. 

  • Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07

    Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA) had two pieces published: “Saving Paradise” in Sundial Magazine and “Bones of You” in Five South.

  • Janet Rodriguez ‘20

    Janet Rodriguez’s ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA) memoir, Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations, will be released by Prickly Pear Publishing on May 30, 2022, and is available for pre-order. Rodriguez also interviewed MFA Core Faculty Victoria Chang for the Rumpus.

  • MFA Special Guest Diane Seuss

    December 2021 MFA Special Guest Diane Seuss was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for the collection frank: sonnets.

  • MFA Faculty Natashia Deón

    MFA Faculty Natashia Deón was interviewed by The Coachella Review about her novel The Perishing.