Jose Hernandez Diaz ’15 (Los Angeles, MFA) introduces readers to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt in his debut chapbook The Fire Eater: Poems (2020). Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems explore the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life.
LeVan D. Hawkins ’11
LeVan D. Hawkins ’11 (Antioch Los Angeles, MFA) has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his essay, “Both Sissies,” which was published in the Chicago Quarterly Review in 2021. “Both Sissies” is selected for reprint in Pushcart Prize XLV11: Best of Small Presses (2023 edition) November 2022.