Zoe Marzo ’18

Zoe Marzo ’18 (BA in Liberal Studies, Creative Writing, Los Angeles) had her short story “The Lost Mermaid” published in Tahoma Literary Review. Her Craft essay “The Dark Pages: Updating…

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In Place of Fear and Shame, We Need Sex-Positive Education

Sexual education is extremely important and we need more of it. In the second episode of our mini-series about human sexuality we talk with Dr. Theodore Burns about the need for educators to go beyond the “SexEd” class, incorporating open and sex-positive discussions about sexuality, and gender also across young people’s educations. Dr. Burns, a therapist and educator specializing in sexuality and gender, shares with us key strategies to create culturally responsive, sex-positive learning environments that make children safer.

Victoria Chang

MFA Core Faculty Victoria Chang (Los Angeles, MFA) and Dean Rader’s review-in-dialogue of Douglas Kearney’s Sho was one of LitHub‘s 10 Best Book Reviews of 2021. Chang was also named…

Caitlin Coey ‘21

Caitlin Coey‘s ‘21 (Los Angeles, MFA) poem, “The rope and the hole,” appeared in Awakened Voices and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Gabriella Souza ‘19

Gabriella Souza‘s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) flash piece, “Little Feet,” was published in Cleaver and nominated for The Best Small Fictions anthology.

Gwynne Garfinkle ‘06

Gwynne Garfinkle’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA) novel, Can’t Find My Way Home, will be published on January 15 by Aqueduct Press.