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Alumni Testimonials

Mary Cisper, MFA Poetry '15

Mary Cisper is the winner of the 2016 Trio Award out of Trio House Press for her poetry collection, DARK TUSSOCK MOTH
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, MFA Fiction '01

Jennifer's novel Book Scavenger is a New York Times Best Seller!
Raina León, MFA Poetry '16

Raina's book Sombra: (dis)locate is featured on the Los Angeles Times list of 23 Essential books of poetry by Latino authors. Check out the article here.
Juan Alvarado Valdivia, MFA Creative Nonfiction '10

Program Associate for ChangeLab Solutions

Juan Alvarado Valdivia's short story was recently published in Origins Journal "Intersections, Volume 4, 2017" and a Fash Nonfiction was just published on Thread, "Ode To Thrash Metal"
Mary Volmer, MFA Fiction '05

Professor and Writer

Louise Marburg in Conversation with Alumna Mary Volmer at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley on September 19th!
Krista Varela, MFA Creative Nonfiction '14

Contributing Editor for The East Bay Review, Contributor for Booma: The Bookmapping Project, and occasional poster for its blog, The Daily Spot

Krista Varela's essay "Mother’s Day" in the inaugural issue of Ponder Review
Sarah Louise Garrido, MFA Poetry '10

Senior Associate Copywriter for Workday

Sarah Louise Garrido has a poem featured in Inknode titled "Postpartum"
Rashaan Alexis Meneses, MFA Fiction '06

Awarded The Ancinas Scholarship for 47th Annual Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Fiction Program 2017 and an Emerging Writers Fellowship at Wellstone Center in the Redwoods; will serve as a Visiting Liberal Arts Fellow for Collegiate Seminar...
Candace Eros Diaz, MFA Creative Nonfiction & Fiction '12

Coordinator of Admissions & Student Services at Saint Mary's College, MFA in Creative Writing

Candace Eros Díaz is a 2017-2018 Emerging Arts Professionals Fellow
Kevin Finley, MFA Creative Nonfiction '09

Read Kevin's essay in City Pages Minneapolis about finding a new home in Ireland.