The poet Carol Davis finds her inspiration when immersed in the unfamiliar. She teaches now in the bachelor’s program at Antioch Los Angeles. Her classes range from multi-genre workshops to…
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.
Undergrad Romance Leads to Matching Psych Grad Degrees
When I met over Zoom with J.T. Derwart and Alexandra Block on a Sunday in late fall that was unseasonably hot all across Southern California they were seated in their…
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.
C. Imani Williams ‘10
C. Imani Williams’s ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA) book, Rootwork: Triumph Over Trauma, was published.
Nathan Elias ‘18
Nathan Elias’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) novel, Coil Quake Rift, was published by Montag Press.
Toni Ann Johnson ‘08
Toni Ann Johnson ‘08 (Los Angeles, MFA) was a guest on the Missouri Review’s Miller Aud-cast podcast.
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.
Sarah Manguso
MFA Faculty Sarah Manguso (Los Angeles, MFA) was profiled by Publishers Weekly about her upcoming novel Very Cold People.
Victoria Chang
MFA Core Faculty Victoria Chang’s (Los Angeles, MFA) book, Dear Memory, was reviewed by Heather Scott Partington in Los Angeles Review of Books.