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What’s happening with Antioch’s Alumni, Faculty, and Staff

  • Chris Shorne ‘16

    Chris Shorne ‘16 (Los Angeles, MFA) has his essay “Your Grandpa’s Gender Identity: An Open Letter to My Brother’s Child,” appear in After Happy Hour Review.

  • Kim Langmaid ‘09

    Kim Langmaid ‘09 (New England, PhD in Environmental Studies) was named Mayor of the town of Vail, Colorado and will serve a two-year term. She was unanimously elected by her colleagues following a swearing-in ceremony on December 7th, 2021. Langmaid served two terms for the Town Council in 2015 and in 2017, and served as…

  • Brad Kessler

    MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Brad Kessler’s novel, North: A Novel, was published on October 5th from The Overlook Press. 

  • Marco Wilkinson

    MFA Faculty Marco Wilkinson’s memoir, Madder, was published by Coffee House Press.

  • Jacqueline Swett ‘08

    Jacqueline Swett ‘08 (New England, MA in Dance/Movement Therapy) has opened a private practice in Fryeburg, Maine. A licensed clinical professional counselor, she works with clients to address issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma and major life transitions, using cognitive behavioral therapy skills coupled with movement approaches that can help with mind/body healing. She is…

  • Natashia Deón

    MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Natashia Deón‘s The Perishing was published on November 2nd by Counterpoint Press. It was listed as a must-read by Shondaland.

  • Victoria Chang

    Los Angeles MFA Program Chair Victoria Chang was profiled by Kamran Javadizadeh for The New Yorker about her books Dear Memory (Milkweed) and Obit (Copper Canyon Press): “Chang has followed language to the edge of what she knows; the question her book asks is whether language can go further still, whether it can be trusted…

  • Alum and Faculty Share Advancing Equity Grant with Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board

    Dr. Rachel Oppenheim, Associate Dean of our Graduate School of Education, and Kyla Crawford ’13, ’17 (Seattle, BA; Seattle, MA in Teaching) and a teacher-librarian in the Tukwila School District, participated in a panel event at the Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board meeting and shared about Antioch Seattle’s Advancing Equity Grant project. The previous…

  • Shameika Hanson ’20

    Shameika Hanson ‘20 (New England, MS in Environmental Studies, Sustainable Development and Climate Change) has been elected to the American Society of Adaptation Professionals’ (ASAP) Board of Directors. Hanson, a native of Huntington Station, is currently a Community Protection Specialist at the Nature Conservancy in New York. She began her board term in fall 2021,…

  • Adrian Ernesto Cepeda ‘16

    Adrian Ernesto Cepeda‘s ’16 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) Speaking con Su Sombra was published in late September from Alegría Publishing. 

  • Dan Bellm

    MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Dan Bellm’s translation of Balam Rodrigo’s poem, “The Patron Saints,” appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets.

  • Sarah Manguso

    Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Sarah Manguso appeared on the Artist Reunion episode of the Shaddow//Yaddo podcast.