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

  • 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 Press, 2020) was named a New York Times Notable Book & received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN Voelcker Award. It was…

  • 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 Barbara County. WYP Board members oversee governance, finance, and fundraising and act as ambassadors to the community. The mission of the Wilderness Youth Project is…

  • 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 in Nonprofit Management program. Giselle was still in her teens when she made a name for herself in Philippine showbiz. Some of her most memorable films…

  • 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 here.

  • 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 curated list of the Best Books of 2020 and recommended by SF Weekly’s Holiday Gift Guide. He was interviewed on The Laura Flanders Show discussing…

  • 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 Bell, and “What Happens to the Heart” in Hobart.

  • Desiree Kannel ’08

    Desiree Kannel’s ’08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel Lucky John was published June 2020 by Black Rose Writing and was named a finalist in African American Fiction from the 2021 Next Generation Indie Awards. Kannel began her novel while in the MFA program and finished it about 5 years later with the help…

  • Kierstyn Hunter ‘07

    Kierstyn Hunter ‘07 (Seattle, MA) was named VP for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Berkshire Community College. She most recently served as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at American International College (AIC) in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she previously was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Accreditation Liaison Officer. She has held…

  • Kate Maruyama ’09

    Kate Maruyama’s ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) blog, “Harvests, Solstices, and Aliens: Genre Fiction and Social Commentary,” appeared in Speculative Fiction Showcase. Her piece, “Dwelling on Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo,” appeared in Cultural Daily.

  • Tim Cummings ‘18

    Tim Cummings ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) had his short story, Luke De Foncé Du Nuage published in Scare Street’s horror anthology Night Terrors. He was interviewed about writing and the creative process for the Local Stories series in Shoutout LA, and was a guest editor for Critical Read, choosing micro-essays for their Art Is Essential series during…