Archive

Notes

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

  • Jesus Sierra ’18

    Jesus Sierra ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published the essay “Expiring Candles” in Solstice.

  • Colin MacKenzie Mitchell ’18

    Colin MacKenzie Mitchell ’18 (Santa Barbara, MFA) signed a deal with IHeartMedia to produce, write, and direct a season of his own original scripted podcast series The Laundronauts: A Potentially Untrue Tale Based on Actual Events. The series will star Ed Asner.

  • Nichole Klocksiem ’18

    Nichole Klocksiem ’18 (Seattle, MA) organized the panel Queer and Geeky Educators Q&A for GeekGirlCon, an event that empowers girls to pursue their “geeky” passions, whatever they might be.

  • Jessica O’Dwyer ’18

    Jessica O’Dwyer ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published Mother Mother (2020). A married couple in California grapples with power and race, deception and love when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanage. It is a piercing story of empathy and sacrifice and what it means to be a mother.

  • Lisa Croce ’18

    Lisa Croce ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) published her short story “Paroled” in Obelus Journal.

  • Micki Colbeck ’18

    Micki Colbeck ’18 (New England, MS) published an article, “Joining the Older Scholar’s Club” in the Valley News.”

  • Kristen Brock ’18

    Kristen Brock ’18 (New England, MEd) was awarded a mini-grant from the Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE) for her work with students at Colegio Americano de Guatemala.

  • Jessica Abughattas ’18

    Jessica Abughattas ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) was the winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her debut poetry collection Strip (2020), a captivating debut about desire and dispossession and that tireless poetic metaphor—the body.

  • Michelle Wrinkles ’17

    Michelle Wrinkles ’17 (Santa Barbara, MBA) was promoted to partner in Mission Wealth Owners Group.

  • Jennifer Hunter ’17

    Dr. Jennifer Hunter ’17 (GSLC, PhD) published Taro the Zen Cat: Seasons of Change (2020) which spotlights Taro, a cat on a quest to answer the age-old question: Who am I?

  • Rasheena Fountain ’17

    Rasheena Fountain ’17 (Seattle, MA) was featured in the KBCS interview “More Than One Kind of Nature,” which discussed what shapes our view of the environment and our relationship with it.

  • Anna Dorn ’17

    Anna Dorn ’17 (Los Angeles, MFA) has a new novel Vagablonde (2020). It is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a woman who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as an artist.