Erica Charis Molling ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) produced and launched “In This Place (An American Lyric),” a video featuring recitations of National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and 16 other poets.
Cristina Medina ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) was selected as a finalist for North America Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize by Guest Judge Ilya Kaminsky for her poem “Etymology of a Name.”
Dr. Lindsay Lyons ’19 (GSLC, PhD) co-authored “Building the Capacity for Student Leadership in High School: A Review of Organizational Mechanisms from the Field of Student Voice” that was published in the Journal of Educational Administration.
Steve Langford ’19 (Santa Barbara, MFA) sold another episode to the TV series, Creepshow.
Julia Caroline Knowlton ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) depicts survival from illness and sexual violence, and also paints a portrait of the artist striving to find living, literary mothers and sisters in her new book One Clean Feather (2019). In poems “sharp as silver, clean and stunning” Knowlton invites her readers on a flight from darkness into the light of autonomy, poetry, and hope—“the thing with feathers.”
Diane Gottlieb ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her essay “Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)” published in Hippocamus Magazine.
Caylin Gans ’19 (New England, MS) published Forest Schooled: The Book (2019), a selection of posts from her blog.
Barbara Fant ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had her poem, “My Dad Buried Two Dogs in the Backyard,”selected as the Poem-a-Day on July 29, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.
Gabby Clayman ’19 (Los Angeles, MA) has been hired as a consultant for The Help Group to be part of their new social enterprise Silverlining, a resale shop and vocational center.
Erica Charis-Molling ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) published an essay, “On Endurance,” in Vida.
Kate Carmody ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA) received a $1,000 grant from the CINTAS Foundation to support artists born in Cuba or of Cuban descent.
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.
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