• Shome Dasgupta ‘08

    Shome Dasgupta’s ‘08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) poetry collection, Iron Oxide, will be published by Assure Press and his chapbook, Spectacles, was published by word west.

  • Gabriella Hudson-Abbot ‘12

    Gabriella Hudson-Abbot ‘12 (Seattle, BA in Liberal Studies) painted a mural at South Lynnwood Park as a part of a $2.5 million renovation project. The mural features caring arms and…

  • Clara Fang

    Clara Fang, PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at New England, was recently elected to the Board of Directors for The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS). Fang officially took…

  • Janet Rodriguez ‘20

    Janet Rodriguez’s ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) piece, “Pocha,” was published in Pangyrus, and her interviews “The Power of the Word: Talking with Roberto Lovato” and “Discovering the…

  • Victoria Chang

    Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing Program Chair and faculty Victoria Chang was interviewed by Daniel Handler on NPR’s City Arts & Lecture Series. Chang’s latest poetry book OBIT (Copper Canyon…

  • Lena Morán-Acereto ’16

    Lena Morán-Acereto ’16 (Education with focus on Leadership and Social Justice, Santa Barbara) has joined the Board of the Wilderness Youth Project (WYP), the leading nature connection organization in Santa…

  • Teri Carns ‘17

    Teri Carns ‘17 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had a haibun poem, “Summer’s Wealth,” appeared in Drifting Sands.

  • Giselle Töngi-Walters ‘21

    Giselle Töngi-Walters ‘21 (Los Angeles, MA) was featured in a profile feature story in The Philippine Star about her career as an actress and her recent graduation from the MA…

  • Ari Banias

    MFA Poetry Faculty Ari Banias’s next book, A Symmetry, will be published by W. W. Norton in October 2021.

  • Stephanie Molina ‘07

    Stephanie Molina ‘07 (Santa Barbara, MACP) is the program director for employee assistance at Cottage Hospital. She has recently joined the New House Santa Barbara Board of Directors. Read more…

  • Roberto Lovato ’18

    Roberto Lovato’s (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas was selected by the Los Angeles Times on a…

  • Malia Márquez ‘19

    Malia Márquez’s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) first novel, This Fierce Blood, will be published by Acre Books in October 2021.  Her stories, “A House So Beautiful” was published in Coffin…