Beth Varner is a recent graduate of the MA in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program. She has been working in education since 2009 as a school psychologist, and more recently in…
Tonjie Reese
Alum Interview with Gender-Based Preventionist Tonjie Reese Tonjie Reese is is an alum of the MA in Education, Leadership and Change program and founder of the gender-based violence prevention nonprofit,…
Gary Delanoeye Publishes Third Book
Education Program Faculty Gary Delanoeye, published his third book on February 6, 2019. Clean Shorts is a collection of twelve very different short stories. Each one is drawn from Gary’s…
Shari Foos Opens DIY Human Studio in Santa Monica
Shari Foos, MA, MFT, MS, founder and Creative Director of The Narrative Method, is an alumna of the MA in Clinical Psychology program, Adjunct Faculty in the Undergraduate Studies Department,…
An Interview with Visiting MFA Faculty Natashia Deón
Antioch LA Visiting MFA Faculty in fiction, Natashia Deón, is a NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace. Awarded the 2017 American Library Association’s Black Caucus Award Winner for Best…
Victoria Chang Awarded MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Core poetry faculty in the AULA MFA in Creative Writing program, Victoria Chang, was recently awarded a Macdowell Colony fellowship, which was announced in January in an article in ARTFORUM….
Narratives in Landscape: Steve Heller and Don Strauss Discuss Story and Sustainability
Steve Heller, chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, and Don Strauss, founding chair of the Urban Sustainability Masters Program, presented together at the Hawai`i International Conference on the Arts &…
LGBT Specialization’s Thomas Mondragon Speaks at LA City Hall Proclamation
Thomas Mondragon, Interim Co-director of the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology’s LGBT Specialization, recently had the honor of addressing the Los Angeles City Council at a City Hall proclamation. The…
MFA Program Hosts Winter Residency and Inaugural Commencement
The MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media program held its winter residency December 9 through December 15, 2018. Twice a year MFA students meet on the Santa Barbara campus for…
MFA Alum Andre Hardy on Football, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction, and Freedom
by Sarah Haas Before Andre Hardy was a writer he was an athlete, and a damn good one at that. He was strong, fast, coordinated, powerful—the kind of talent you…
Antioch’s Low-Residency MFA Program Named One of the Best in the Nation by Online Masters
Antioch University’s Low-Residency MFA program was awarded the 11th best online MFA program in the United States. Online Masters analyzed every online Masters in Creative Writing program in the nation to…
Antioch Marches in LA’s 34th MLK Kingdom Day Parade
2019 marked the first year that Antioch University marched as a group in LA’s 34th Kingdom Day Parade. Accompanying the group of faculty, staff, students, alums, and family members was…