Madeline Bell

            Year:   Sophomore

             Major:   Health Science

            Hometown:   Ventura, CA

         

Carly Bobo

            Year:   Senior

            Major:  English

            Hometown:   Wilton, CA

            Favorite Book (fiction):   Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

            Favorite Poet:   Dr. Seuss

            Favorite Movie:   Breakfast at Tiffany's

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Reading otu loud adn circling errors in cool colors so that I don't feel too bad about my mystakes. 

            Favorite Quotation:   "Live life in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you no one would belive it." -Unknown

            In Her Own Words:    I love Jesus, dogs, coffee, fashion, and last but not least, writing. 

 

Mollie Clark

            Year: Senior

            Major: English - Creative Writing

Jeff Chon

            Year:   2nd Year MFA Candidate

            Genre:   Creative Nonfiction

  

Anna Gates

            Year:   2nd Year MFA Candidate

            Genre:   Fiction

            Hometown:   Orangeville, CA

            Favorite Book (fiction):   Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

            Favorite Movie:   The Breakfast Club

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Post-outlining

        

Bridget Hanna

            Year:   Junior

            Major:   English, Dramatic and Film Arts

            Hometown:   Mariposa, CA

            Favorite Book (poetry):  erotic poems  by e.e. cummings

            Favorite Movie:  V for Vendetta

            Favorite Revision Tool:  Freewriting

            Favorite Quotation:  "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel

               is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked

               a hot fudge sundae." -Kurt Vonnegut 

 

Jen Herrington - Administrative Assistant

          

Daniel Horan

            Year:   2nd Year MFA Candidate

            Genre:   Fiction

            Hometown:   Harvard, MA, & Lafayette, CA

            Favorite Books (fiction):  Atonement by Ian McEwan

                                                    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

            Favorite Poet:   Pablo Neruda

            Favorite Movie:   The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Time

        

Somel Jammu

            Year:   Junior

            Major:   Integral

             Minor:   Creative Writing

            Hometown:   Santa Clara (born), Cupertino (currently)

            Favorite Book (fiction):   Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

            Favorite Book (poetry):   Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

            Favorite Movie:   Amar, Akbar, Anthony

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Marking and writing any quotations that stick out to

             me. This helps me see the overall theme and what strikes me the most

             in each text. 

            Favorite Quotation:   "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy

               you." -Ray Bradbury

             In Her Own Words:   "It was something she had felt and decided she would keep,

               regardless of whether he ever knew or not. it was a feeling capturing a real moment,

               but it was a feeling she would keep just for herself. Whatever that feeling was and

               however it felt, she knew it. I wished I could be as certain sometimes but then

               sometimes I wondered if certainty even existed." from "Baby Brown" 

 

Tereza Joy Kramer – Director

            Poetry, Rhetoric, Composition, TESOL, Journalism, Spanish

            Hometown:   Cleveland, OH

            Favorite Book (nonfiction):   Ethics for the New Millenium by Dalai Lama

            Favorite Poet:   Sharon Olds

            Favorite Movie:   The Perks of Being a Wallflower

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Discussion

            Favorite Quotation:   "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our

              deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our

              darkness, that most frightens us ... . And as we let our own light shine, we

              unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are

              liberated from our own fear, our presence automaticallly liberates others."

                                                                                                -Marianne Williamson

               In Her Own Words:   I've never been a good writer, but I just can't stop trying. 

Reyna Olegario

            Year:   Junior

            Major:   English, Preparation for High School Teaching

            Minor:   Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic Tradition

            Hometown:   Hercules, CA

            Favorite Book (fiction):   Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

            Favorite Movie:   The Lion King and Maria Full of Grace

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Control F

            Favorite Quotation:   “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us

              than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” –John Green,

                                            from "Quotations (And Holden Hats)" [Vlog]

            In Her Own Words:   sentences about what she wants to say

 

Samantha Ricci

            Year:   Junior

            Major(s):   Theatre and English

            Hometown:   Vacaville, CA

            Favorite Book (fiction):   Different Seasons by Stephen King

            Favorite Book (poetry):   Nine Horses by Billy Collins

            Favorite Movie:   Young Frankenstein

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Reading out loud, a ballpoint pen, and a piece of

               scrap paper. 

            Favorite Quotation:   "Try not to become a man of success but rather a

                man of value." -Albert Einstein

             In Her Own Words:   Despite being super-busy all of the time, I'm

                generally a pretty happy person. I get animated when something

                excites or interests me. Don't be surprised if I use sound effects

                as adjectives. 

 

Sara Vander Zwaag

            Year:   2nd Year MFA Candidate

            Genre:   Poetry

            Hometown:   Bryn Mawr, PA

            Favorite Book (fiction):   The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

            Favorite Books (poetry):   The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

                                                                                 by Bhanu Kapil Rider

                                                      Noon by Cole Swenson

            Favorite Movie:   American Beauty & Howl’s Moving Castle [tied]

            Favorite Revision Tool:   Free writing/free-association brainstorming

            Favorite Quotation:   “We will be stardust. Ancient tailings

                                               of nothing. Elapsed breath. No,

                                               we must first be ice. Be nails. Be teeth.

                                               Be lightning.”

                               –C.D. Wright, from “Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof”

            In Her Own Words:  I love words, science, and art. 

 

Caitlin Wire

            Year:  Sophomore

            Major:   Italian and Politics 

            Hometown:   Thousand Oaks, CA