Below is a sampling of accomplishments of recent graduates of our MFA and MA degree programs. If you are a graduate of one of our programs, please do let us know about your professional accomplishments by sending an email to Stephanie Young at syoung@mills.edu.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Prose MFA '09 performed with Sister Spit at the Oakland Metro Opera House on October 7, 2009.

Diana Ip, Prose MFA '08 attended Hedgebrook and BlueMountain Center residencies in 2007. She also received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her first publication—a short story—came out in the spring 08 issue of Hyphen magazine.

Erica Lewis, Poetry MFA '08 curates the Canessa Gallery Reading Series in San Francisco.  In September 2009 she read at Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco with fellow Mills alumna Cassandra Smith.  Erica's new chapbook, the precipice of jupiter, has just been released from Queue Books and features collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein.

Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, Prose MFA '08 joined a delegation of Chamorus from Guåhan (Guam) to testify before the United Nations Special Political and Decolonization Committee in October 2008.

Cassandra Smith, Poetry MFA '08 works as an assistant editor with Omnidawn Publishing.  In September 2009 she read at Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco with fellow Mills alumna Erica Lewis.

Leila Abu-Saba, Prose MFA '07 (1962-2009) began her blog, Dove's Eye View, in 2004.  She was the member of many online writing communities who mourn the loss of her voice.

Robyn Brooks, Poetry MFA ’07 is a San Francisco Playground artist, and had her play Surprise staged at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Recent performances include the 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride festival, on the Soul Pride Stage, along with luminaries Sistahs In The Pit, Blue Buddha, Deep Dick Collective, Micia Mosley, Butta Babies, Ruff Tuff drag king talent, SMAAC and the Uptown Youth Group, Qui, Ricoshade and Dream Dance. In 2007, Robyn also read for the new anthology What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets, published by RAW ArT PRESS.

Sara Campos, Prose MFA ’07 has been published in Colorlines (July/August 2009 and September/October 2009), Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine (Spring/Summer 09), Literary Mama (Summer 2008), Rio Grande Review (Fall 2008), the San Francisco Chronicle (June 2007), and The Womanist (Spring 2007).  Campos was also granted a residency at Hedgebrook in Summer 2009.

Carolina De Robertis, Prose MFA ’07 is the recipient of a 2008 Hedgebrook Residency for Women Authoring Change. De Robertis’ novel The Invisible Mountain (Knopf, 2009) is available or forthcoming in sixteen countries and twelve languages, and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by O Magazine, and one of the Ten Best First Novels of the Year by BookList. The novel was a bestseller in the Bay Area and in Germany. Carolina has been named the #1 Latino Author to Watch in 2010 by Latino Stories.com. Her translation of the contemporary Chilean novella Bonsai, by Alejandro Zambra, was named one of the Ten Best Translated Books of 2008 by the journal Three Percent. Her fiction and literary translations have also appeared in Zoetrope: Allstory, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and ColorLines, among others.

Lara Durback, Poetry MFA '07 is the studio manager for the Book Art Program at Mills College and recently read at the Canessa reading Series an Rebel Reading Series (San Francisco, 2009).  She has had work published in WORK and Try.

Liz Green, Poetry MFA ’07 performed at the Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco with her ensemble, Queer Identified Objects in 2007. The group performed an original piece blending “spoken word, silliness, queer politics and movement.”

Scott Hoshida, Prose MFA '07 is a full-time, tenure track basic skills instructor at Berkeley City College.

April Kilcrease, Prose MFA '07 had her article "Intimate Apparel" published in the New York Times Magazine (Jan. 6, 2008). She is a reporter for Red Herring magazine.

M. Mara Ann, Poetry MFA ’07 had her book Containment SCenario: DisloInter MedTextId entCation: Horse Medicine published by OBooks.  She is presenting a five-part inter-media performance series adapted from the book that further explores the language of the environment through improvisational music-dance-theater and features work by many current and former MFA students. 

Jen Nellis, Poetry MFA ’07 has curated and performed in movie telling/neo-benshi performances at CounterPulse in San Francisco. Jen has performed with fellow Mills alums Dennis Somera and Stephanie Young along with local writers and filmmakers David Brazil, Amanda Davidson, and Konrad Steiner. Jen has performed her movie-telling pieces at several performances spaces in the last year, including Artists Television Access and Small Press Traffic’s 2007 Poets Theater Festival.  She is currently teaching in the English Department at University of Redlands.

Sarah Ostendorf, Prose MFA ’07 is pursuing a PhD at New York University.

Whitney Phaneuf, Prose MFA '07 co-curates the Rebel Reading Series at The Knockout in San Francisco with Mills alums Stephanie Pullen, MFA '07 and April Kilcrease, MFA '07.

Katrina Rodabaugh, Poetry MFA '07 was awarded an individual artist grant from the Puffin Foundation in spring 2009 and currently works as a program director at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Her poetry and artwork have appeared in the journals There and The Press Gang and in exhibitions at the SF Center for the Book, CounterPulse, Columbia College Chicago, The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and others. Visit her blog, "Made by Katrina." www.katrinarodabaugh.blogspot.com  She will be reading at the Thrive House in late September 2009 with fellow alumnae Sarah Trott and Kristin Palm.

Jeffrey Schrader, Poetry MFA '07 has been involved in the Uglyman Collective, Another Publishing, Cricket Online Review and many other do-it-yourself experiments. His chapbooks include Speak at Every Hazard and The Man at the Other End of the Bench; grid/pattern is forthcoming from Erg.

Stephanie Brown, Prose MFA ’06 had a grant proposal approved by the Los Angeles Clippers Basketball Foundation. The grant will help to fund the Literacy, Food, & Fitness program at the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, where she is the LAMP Literacy Program Administrator.

Loretta Clodfelter, English BA ’00, Poetry MFA ‘06 is founder and managing editor of the new quarterly online journal THERE, which seeks to collect innovative or avant-garde works of poetry with a focus on issues of land use, the environment, development, politics and people, facts and fictions, and ambiguity and ambivalence, along with essays on the intersection between activism and poetics. In summer 2009, There Press published its first title, Planned, by Mills alumna Sarah Trott.

Laura Davis, Prose MFA ’06 wrote and produced a spoken word performance in 2007 with Mills alumna Carly West as part of the ReGeneration Art Show, which explored Genesis through a variety of visual media.  She was honored as "Cross Country Coach of the Year" at the California Pacific Conference in November 2009.  Her story "Slab City" was published in the spring 2009 issue of A Cappella Zoo, which nominated it for a Pushcart Prize in December 2009.  She performed at Literary Death Match in San Francisco on January 8, 2010.

Meeta Kaur, Prose MFA '06 is a recent recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Writing Fellowship.

Laleh Khadivi, Prose MFA '06 is currently the 2007-2009 Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University in Atlanta. Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, was published by Houghton Mifflin in Spring, 2009 as part of a two-book deal. Italian rights to the novel, the first in a planned trilogy about the Kurds, have also been sold.  She will be reading at Mills for the Contemporary Writer Series on November 17, 2009.

Nina LaCour, Prose MFA ’06 will begin her second year of teaching English at Maybeck High School in Berkeley. Her novel Hold Still will be released in October '09 from Dutton Juvenile.

Teresa K. Miller, Poetry MFA ’06 is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her unpublished manuscript sped was a finalist for the 2009 National Poetry Series. Poems have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Columbia Poetry Review, Coconut, Cricket Online Review, and others. She is an Oakland Teaching Fellow.

J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden, Poetry MFA ’06 is co-editor and founder, with Chad Lietz, of the journal Cricket Online Review. Past issues feature work from Mills alumni Jeremy Thompson, Teresa Miller, Jen Dearinger, Sarah Trott, Dan Fisher, Dillon Westbrook, and David Horton, along with writing from Charles Bernstein, kari edwards, Amy King, Noah Eli Gordon, and others. J.D.'s most recent chapbook, Hooray!, was published by Mr. Taft's Chaps in 2006.

Elena Shapiro, Prose MFA '06 is pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Davis.  Her debut novel, 13 Rue Thérèse, was recently picked up by Little, Brown.

Aimee Suzara, Poetry MFA ‘06 continues to perform widely as an individual and member of several performance collectives across the Bay Area. Her current multidisciplinary work in progress, Pagbabalik (Return), had its world premiere in full production at La Peña Cultural Center in June 2007. This work also received a Zellerbach Community Arts Grant, was selected for CounterPulse’s 2006 Emerging Performance Festival, and excerpts have been staged or given staged readings at APAture, Intersection for the Arts, and Bindlestiff Studios. Her work also includes the chapbook the space between (Finishing Line Press 2008), publication in the anthology Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees (Lit Noire Publishing 2006), and a track on the "Eye of the Storm" CD benefiting the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Jeremy James Thompson, Poetry MFA ’06 curated and produced a traveling show of mixed media poetry, /Poetry Plastique/, featuring the work of many Mills graduate students and alumni, including Jacob Eichert, Dennis Somera, Dillon Westbrook, J.D. Mitchell, Cassie Smith, William Moor, Jennifer Dearinger, Lara Durback, Katrina Rodabaugh, Sarah A. Trott, M.Mara-Ann, Laurel DeCou, Jen Nellis, and Keith Mosier. Jeremy also recently performed at the Matrix Gallery, BAM/PFA, as part of Alison Smith’s traveling exhibition "Notion Nanny".

Sarah Trott, Poetry MFA '06 has had her first full-length book of poetry, Planned, published by There Press.  The release party is planned for the end of September 2009 and will feature readings by Trott and Mills alumnae Kristin Palm and Katrina Rodabaugh.

Patty Tumang, Prose MFA ‘06 received a Fulbright to the Phillipines and along with Jenesha de Rivera, Fiction MFA ’07 celebrated the release of the anthology they co-edited, Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press, 2007), with readings and launch events across the Bay Area. The anthology of personal essays explores the complicated notion of homeland.

Carly Anne West, Prose MFA '06 has published fiction in Watchword (2008) and SoMa Literary Review (2007) and was a reader for Litcrawl in 2006 and 2008.  In 2007, she wrote and produced a spoken word performance with Mills alumna Laura Davis as part of the ReGeneration Art Show, which explored Genesis through a variety of visual media.

Dillon Westbrook, Poetry MFA ’06 is currently working on a philosophical work treating the origins of music and poetry. Writings have appeared in Cricket Online Review and OCHO. He is the resident composer for The Subject to Chance Performance Company, whose short piece Study:2013 appeared in the Streamfest and Pilot-50 festivals in 2007. He composed and performed, with Frank Dorritie, the live score for We Players production outdoor production of MacBeath in historic Fort Point in San Francisco. He lives with his wife, Cori Belew (Education MA '09), in Oakland.

Raquel Baker, Prose MFA '05 is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literary Studies as the University of Iowa.

Meg Hamill, Poetry MFA ’05 had her first book published in Factory School’s Heretical Text series. Meg wrote the book, Death Notices, for her MFA thesis while at Mills. Her second book, Trillions & Trillions of Heartbeats (2008) was published by Resonant Books. She is currently working with California Poets in the Schools.

Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Poetry MFA ’05 has been published in the Asian Pacific American Journal, There Journal, Nha Magazine, the Vietnamese Artists Collective anthology AS IS: A Collection of Visual and Literary Works by Vietnamese American Artists and the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) anthology Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. Anh-Hoa has performed her work at Kearny Street Workshop's APAture 8 & 9, San Francisco's Litcrawl and Writers with Drinks. She is also the founder of Pomelo Press, and creates self-published and hand bound artists books. Her artists books and photography series "Of the Body" have been shown in various galleries in the Bay Area. Anh-Hoa has also completed a residency at Hedgebrook, a Writers-in-Residence Program for women. She's also a spring 2009 recipient of a Elizabeth George Foundation Writing Fellowship.

Tanita Davis, Prose MFA '04 had two novels released by Knopf Books for Young Readers, A la Carte (2008) and Mare's War (2009).  Mare’s War is a complete revision of her thesis project into a YA novel.  She was a panelist at the Fall 2007 conference of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Isabel Garcia-Gonzales, Prose MFA '04, was a finalist for the Summer 2007 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for her story "Typhoon Season, 1943." In 2005, she was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook in Washington state.

Sian Jones, Prose MFA ’04 had a story she wrote while at Mills, "Pilot," included in Best New American Voices 2006.

Sarah Stevenson, Prose MFA ‘04 organized and participated in a panel about blogging children's literature at the Fall 2007 conference of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Tanita and Sarah co-interviewed author Sherman Alexie for their YA blog, Finding Wonderland, and the interview will appear in a forthcoming print collection entitled Conversations with Sherman Alexie (University Press of Mississippi). Sarah had an article, "Surviving with a Smile: Life After Breastcancer" published in a 2008 edition of San Joaquin Woman magazine. She continues to do freelance work in writing, editing, art, and design.

Romney Steele, Poetry MFA '04 had her book, My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family and Big Sur, released in November 2009 from Andrews McNeel Publishing.

Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Poetry MFA ’04 had a book published by O Books in 2006. Tresspasses is a collection of poetry which moves between writing in Thai and English. Padcha wrote the book for her MFA thesis at Mills. Trespasses is available from Small Press Distribution. A chapbook by Padcha, composite.diplomacy, is also available from Tinfish Press.

Tara Weaver, Prose MFA ’04 has veered into food writing. Her first book, The Butcher & The Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through A World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis, will be published by Rodale in September '09. She contributes regularly to Edible San Francisco and Chow.com and muses about food and life on her blog, which has been nominated for several awards.

Eli Brown, MFA '03 won the Fabri Literary Prize for his first novel, The Great Days (New Harbinger, 2008).

Julie Gamberg, Poetry MFA ’03 won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for her first book, The Museum of Natural History, published by Eastern Washington University Press.

Becky Peterson MFA '03 is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. An essay on Laura (Riding) Jackson is forthcoming in a collection from University of Minnesota Press. Her poetry has appeared in 21 Stars Review, POOL, Indiana Review, and the inaugural issue of Wave Books' The Bedazzler. Her chapbook, Metropolitan Bird Culture, was published by Bigfan Press in 2004.

Cynthia Sailers, Poetry MFA '03 is pursuing a PsyD at the Wright Institute. Her book, Lake Systems, was published by Tougher Disguises in 2004, and Atticus/Finch published her chapbook Rose Lungs. Cynthia also serves on the board of Small Press Traffic and curated the New Brutalism series in Oakland from 2003–05, with co-curator and fellow alumnus Julian Brolaski.

Moya Stone, Prose MFA '03 is freelance writing for several publications including 944, a San Francisco fashion and lifestyle magazine. She is also writer and assistant editor for the fashion blog www.sfbaystyle.com. And last but not least she is a stringer for Glamour magazine. When she finds the time, Moya is working on a collection of personal essays.

Julia Bloch, Poetry MFA ’02 is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in Sidebrow, The Big Ugly Review, and Bay Poetics. She was awarded the 2003 Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and is the co-founder of Bigfan Press. Listen to her reading

Michael Cross, Poetry MFA ’02 is currently pursuing a PhD at the SUNY Buffalo poetics program. His book In Felt Treeling was released by Chax Press in 2008. Atticus/Finch, Michael’s chapbook press, has published 14 books, including titles by Elizabeth Willis, Brent Cunningham, Lisa Jarnot, Myung Mi Kim, Gregg Biglieri, Thom Donovan, and Kyle Schlesinger, and from fellow alums Cynthia Sailers, Eli Drabman, and Julian Brolaski.

Cassandra Dunn MFA '02 won the 2001 Fabilli/Hoffer Essay Prize. She currently works as a senior editor at UC Berkeley.

Stacy McKenna, Prose MFA ’02 is the program manager for Poetry Inside Out, an in-school writing program administered by the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Stacy has taught English and English as a Second Language in Bay Area community colleges, public elementary schools, private language schools, and for Upward Bound. Her translation work has appeared in Codols in New York and The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets.

James Meetze's, Poetry MFA ‘02 first book, I Have Designed This For You, was published by Assemblage Editions. He edited, with Simon Pettet, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler, which is to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April, 2010. James lives in San Diego where he continues to do freelance book design and teaches creative writing at UCSD.

Kathryn Sussman, Prose MFA ’02 went on to complete an MA in English Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and is currently in her third year of a PhD in Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, specializing in depictions of sexuality in African-American modern fiction.  Her short story “The Space in the Room” (which was nominated for Best New American Voices by Cornelia while she was at Mills) was published by Lichen Arts and Letters Preview in the Spring/Summer 2005 edition “Rooms”.  Her poems and fiction have also been published in the online literary journal for Canadians, Regina Weese, and Artsforum magazine (another Canadian publication).  Currently she is teaching Creative Writing workshops while continuing to finish her thesis.

Julian Brolaski, Poetry MFA '01 is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004), Madame Bovary's Diary (Cy Press, 2005), Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar press, 2008), and the blog herm of warsaw. Xir first book gowanus atropolis is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010.  Brolanski lives in Brooklyn where xe writes poetry, serves as a Litmus Press editor, plays country music in The Low & the Lonesome, and curates Mongrel Vaudeville.

Katherine Case, Poetry MFA ’01 is the studio manager and volunteer coordinator at San Francisco Center for the Book Studio, where she also teaches courses in letterpress. Katherine is a member of Thicket Press, which publishes fine arts books of poetry, including letterpressed books featuring work by herself and other Mills alumni.

Daphne Gottlieb, Poetry MFA ’01 performs and teaches writing workshops across the country and locally. Daphne is a Lambda Literary Award finalist for her most recent book of poetry Kissing Dead Girls (Soft Skull Press, 2008). Her newest book is Jokes and the Unconscious, a graphic novel published by Cleis Press and created with artist Diane DiMassa. Daphne also edited Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (Soft Skull Press, 2001), and her book Final Girl (Soft Skull, 2003) was named one of the Village Voice’s Favorite Books of 2003 and winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle.

Jackie Graves, Poetry MFA ’01 is an associate professor at Laney College. She recently worked on FUSION, a staging of work written by Laney students, faculty, and staff.

David Harrison Horton, Poetry MFA ’01 has exhibited his art, sound and video work in New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Paris, Berlin & Caracas. He is co-editor of the Deep Oakland website with Stephanie Young.

Stephanie Young, Poetry MFA ’01 is the graduate program coordinator for the English Department at Mills, where she also teaches poetry in the undergraduate program. Her second book, Picture Palace, came out in Fall 2008 from in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. Telling the Future Off was published by Tougher Disguises in 2005, and she is the editor of Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), an anthology of writing from 110 Bay Area poets. Stephanie co-curated annual poets theater performances at Small Press Traffic from 2004-08, and is co-editor with David Horton of the web project Deep Oakland.

Dan Godston, Poetry MFA ’00 is currently teaching at Columbia College. He is the director of Borderbend Art Collective, which organizes the annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival.

Aidan Thompson, Poetry MFA ’00 is currently pursuing a PhD at SUNY Albany. Her second book, So Earnest to Have a Green Point, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2006, and her first book, Particle and Probability, came out in 2001 with Potes and Poets.

Thea Hillman, Poetry MFA ’99 continues to perform locally and around the country at bookstores, cafes, colleges, poetry festivals, theaters, and music venues. Her first book, Depending on the Light, was published by Manic D Press in 2001, and her second book, For Lack of a Better Word, is forthcoming from Suspect Thoughts Press. Thea recently served as a Trustee on the Mills College Board of Trustees, and as board chair and board member of the Board of the Intersex Society of North America.

Micheline Marcom, Prose MFA ’99 currently teaches fiction in the English graduate program at Mills. Her first novel, Three Apples Fell from Heaven (Riverhead, 2001), was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for first fiction and named one of the best books of the year by both the Washington Post and the LA Times. Three Apples Fell from Heaven was optioned by screenwriter José Rivera in fall of 2007. Her second novel, The Daydreaming Boy (Riverhead, 2004), was selected as a notable book of the year by the LA Times.

Joy Arbor, Prose MFA '98 is tenure track faculty at Kettering University in Michigan.

Judy Halebsky, Poetry MFA '98 is studying noh theatre in Tokyo on a research scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education. Her book Sky=Empty won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize and will be published in spring 2010 by New Issues Poetry and Prose. Her article on modern dancer June Watanabe, whom she studied with at Mills, won the Emerging Scholar award from the Association for Asian Performance and was publised in the Theatre Journal in 2007.

Mary Anne Mohanraj, Prose MFA ’98 is currently teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her debut collection of short stories, Bodies in Motion, was published by HarperCollins in 2005, was named a USA Today Notable Book and has been published in translation in France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Germany and Serbia. Her novel The Arrangement is forthcoming from HarperCollins. Mary Anne earned her PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Utah in 2005, and was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose and a Steffenson-Canon Fellowship in the Humanities in 2006. Find out more about her writing here.

Jacqueline Berger, Poetry MFA '95 has had her third book of poetry, The Gift That Arrives Broken, published.  Selected by Alicia Ostriker, it was the winner of the 2009 Autumn House Poetry Award.

Eleanor Vincent, Prose MFA '95 taught for three semesters in the Mills MFA program and currently offers private creative nonfiction workshops. Her debut memoir, Swimming with Maya (Capital Books, 2004), was a finalist for the Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award. The Sacramento Bee calls it "frank and moving...a journey from denial to acceptance to redemption." She is at work on a new book about her experiences as a member of an Oakland cohousing community.

Susan Ito, Prose MFA ’94 is fiction co-editor for Literary Mama. She also co-edited A Ghost At Hearts Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). Her essays and fiction have appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Hip Mama, Making More Waves, and elsewhere. She teaches writing privately and at UC Berkeley Extension.

Edie Meidav, Prose MFA '93 was awarded a Lannan Fellowship in 2007 and her novel, The Possibility of Lola, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  She was the 2006 winner of the annual Bard Fiction Prize, which confers a $30,000 cash award and appointment as writer in residence at the college for one semester. Meidav received the award for her second novel, Crawl Space, set in rural France in the 1940s and late 1990s, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005. Her first novel, The Far Field, was published by Houghton Mifflin. Her stories have recently appeared in Conjunctions and other journals.

MA Alumni

Gania Barlow, MA '07 is pursuing a PhD at Columbia University. Her essay "All My Prayers are Vain: Social Morality and Moral Responsibility in the History of a Nun" won the 2007 Graduate Student Prize from the Aphra Behn Society.

Natalee Bauer, MA ’07 began working toward her PhD at Rutgers University in Fall 2008.

Ting Chen, MA ’07 is pursuing a PhD at New York State University.

Amber Carini, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at the University of California, San Diego.

Greg Giles, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Davis. His band, 20 Minute Loop, just released its fourth album, Famous People Marry Famous People.

Adriana Macias, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at Northeastern University.

Adan Olmedo, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago.

Danielle Skeehan, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at Northeastern University.

Jennifer Weeks, MA ’06 is pursuing a PhD at Rice University.

Aynah Askanas, MA ’05 is teaching full-time at Diablo Valley College.

Yuriko Shinomori, MA ’05 is the translator working on a Japanese edition of  Yiyun Li’s award-wining collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Jennifer King, MA '02 recently published her book, Turning My Face to the Sun. She was also featured in the March edition of Oakland Magazine in an article on turning 50.

Richard Parent, MA ’00 received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently tenured English faculty at the University of Vermont.

Emily Anderson, MA ’97 received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently tenured faculty at Knox College.

Jennifer Hoofard, MA ’97 received her PhD from the University of California, Davis.