Joan Dempsey ’05

Joan Dempsey ’05 (Los Angeles, MFA) and fellow Maine novelist and friend, Margaret Broucek read from their work and discussed becoming debut authors later in life and the joys of…

Sekai K. Ward ’02

Sekai K. Ward ’02 (Los Angeles, MFA) was interviewed in the online literary journal, The Muffin (WOW! Women on Writing). She was a runner-up in the Quarter 4 Creative Nonfiction…

Rebecca Kuder ’01

Rebecca Kuder ’01 (Los Angeles, MFA) contributed a short story “The Only Flower That Mattered” to newly published, multi-author anthology The Book of Flowering. The book features new short fiction…

Shari Foos ’94, ’97

Shari Foos ’94, ’97 (Los Angeles, BA, MA) opened the DIY Human Studio in Santa Monica, CA. The space serves as a brick and mortar location for DIY Human, a…

Dale Franzen ’85

Dale Franzen ’85 (Los Angeles, BA) is producer for Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown.” A 2018 New York Times article discussed a staging at the National Theater in London, before the show…

Debra Silverman ’81

Debra Silverman ’81 (Los Angeles, MA) was interviewed on CUTV News Radio in August of 2018. She has been an astrologer for over forty years and runs intensive online courses…

Cynthia J McDermott and Fred Chapel

Is My Teacher a Bully?

In recent years much attention has been paid to childhood bullying, from Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project to support LGBTQI+ teens to the first lady’s “Be Best” campaign to…