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

  • Kaya Arnoux ’19

    Kaya Arnoux ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had three poems published in Tinderbox Poetry; two poems published in The Seventh Wave; and “a diagnosis of our daughter’s sleep apnea” published in The Rumpus.

  • Kenny Alexander ’19

    Dr. Kenny Alexander ’19 (GSLC, PhD) was re-elected Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. This new term will be his second consecutive time in this office.

  • Becca Wild ’18

    Becca Wild ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) had a story, “The Astronaut’s Girlfriend,” published in Waxwing.

  • Amy Weidensaul ’18

    Dr. Amy Weidensaul ’18 (New England, PhD) already director of Mass Audubon’s Ipswich Sanctuary, was also named director of Mass Audubon North Shore. In this role, Weidensaul will continue to oversee Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, as well as Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary in Rowley, Straitsmouth Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Rockport,…

  • 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.