• Erica Charis-Molling ‘19

    Erica Charis-Molling’s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) chapbook How We Burn won the Robin Becker Series prize and will be published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2022.

  • Angela Brommel ‘09

    Angela Brommel’s ‘09 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) essay and poem, “The Intimacy of Brevity: Praise for the Short Poem” and “O, White Columbine,” appeared in the Nevada Humanities…

  • Leslie Lehr ‘05

    Leslie Lehr’s ‘05 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) upcoming book, A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me…And You, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.

  • Shonda Buchanan ‘10

    Shonda Buchanan ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) led a generative workshop as part of the California Poets in the Schools Symposium.

  • Anne Liu Kellor ‘06

    Anne Liu Kellor’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, was published September 6, 2021 by She Writes Press. Her essay,…

  • Marva Hinton ‘10

    Marva Hinton ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) interviewed author Deesha Philyaw ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) and author Brian Broome for the Read More podcast. 

  • Jessica O’Dwyer ‘18

    Jessica O’Dwyer’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel Mother Mother was a 2021 San Diego Book Awards winner for Published General Fiction, a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist,…

  • Victoria Chang

    MFA Program Chair Victoria Chang’s upcoming book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, was included on Most Anticipated lists by both the Los Angeles Times and Time.

  • Lowell Blank ‘18

    Lowell Blank ‘18 (Santa Barbara, MFA in Writing) recently formed a production company with writer/director Lane Michael Stanley, called Secretly Famous Productions. They will begin production on their 2nd Independent…

  • Dara Padwo-Audick ‘21

    Dara Padwo-Audick’s ‘21 (Santa Barbara, MFA in Writing) short screenplay, The Cardigan, won Best Short Screenplay at the Reale International Film Festival in February in Milan and was just selected…

  • Alan Verdi ‘03

    Alan Verdi ‘03 (New England, MS) was recently appointed Vice President of Sales for AlertOps, a leader in the Incident Management Software market space. Read more here.

  • William Stegemann ‘17

    William Stegemann ‘17 (Los Angeles, BA Liberal Studies) was welcomed as Colombia County Habitat for Humanity’s New ReStore Manager. He is responsible for overseeing all ReStore operations, ranging from donations…