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Choice is a blessing… and a burden. What do you do after graduation? Which of the multiple paths do you take? What is the PhD, publishing, content marketing, (etc., etc.) really like? Find out by joining the MFA mentorship program.

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Alumni Mentorship

Connecting students with alumni writers

What’s wonderful about an MFA in Creative Writing is that there are so many paths you can take post-graduation.

The SMC MFA in Creative Writing program offers alumni mentorship for second year students; students will be matched with an alumnus who is a good fit with their interests and goals. The mentorship program is intended to give students ‘real life’ guidance. Alumni maintain a connection with our MFA program, while doing a service for their fellow alumni and emerging writers.

Alumni mentors and student mentees both agree to a 6-month commitment with suggested monthly meetings or check-ins (alums who have moved out of the Bay Area can substitute video or phone calls).

If you’re interested in being a mentor, please fill out our mentor form. You’ll be asked about your interests, career path, and how you think you can serve best.

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Rebecca Ekland

Rebecca A Eckland, MFA Creative NonFiction '12

Rebecca recently reviewed The Smithsonian Channel’s “Aerial Cities.” Check it out here!

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Rebecca Ekland

Rebecca A Eckland, MFA Creative NonFiction '12

Bio: Rebecca A Eckland holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Saint Mary's College of California. She also has two Master of Arts degrees in English and French awarded by the University of Nevada, Reno where she teaches in the English and Core Humanities Departments. Her work has appeared in /The Barnstormer/, /Caught in the Carousel/, /3/Go Magazine/, and /The Rudder Magazine/; she has forthcoming work in /Weber: The Contemporary West/, /TAYO Literary Magazine/ and /Hotel Amerika/. She is also the founder and organizer of Literary Arts and Wine, a reading series held the third Sunday of every month in Truckee, California. Rebecca's News Rebecca recently reviewed The Smithsonian Channel’s “Aerial Cities.” Check it out here! Rebecca is featured in the Women on Bikes Series at JosiesBikeLife.com. Rebecca's piece, "True Winter", is a finalist in the 2015 VanderMey Nonfiction Contest. Congratulations Rebecca! From the 2014 Silver State 508, an ultra-endurance cycling race, Rebecca Eckland documents in beautiful prose what it is to be an ultra-endurance athlete while crewing for the two-man team Black Angus Cow. Check out her work, Into the Desert, here. Rebecca Eckland (Creative Nonfiction, 2012) is officially a world champion. She came in first for the women and among the six-hour male solo riders, she was third! In the 6-12-24hr Championships held in Borrego Springs, CA on November 14-15 2014. See the race results here Check out Rebecca Eckland's (Creative Nonfiction, 2012) gorgeous writing and original artwork right now in her piece, "Green to Blue" in The East Bay Review! Rebecca Eckland recently won the Lake Tahoe Triathlon, not just in her division, but overall, coming in first place out of all women who participated in the event! Rebecca Eckland will be participating in the 2014 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl in Reno on Saturday July 20. She will read at 6:20pm at St. James Infirmary Rebecca Eckland will be participating in the 2014 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl in Reno on Saturday July 20. She will read at 6:20pm at St. James Infirmary Rebecca Eckland participated in the Alta Alpina Bicycle challenge on June 28, 2014. She rode 160 miles, completeing 7 out of 8 passes, in the mountains near Markleeville, CA. Rebecca Eckland placed #1 in her division & 11th overall for women in the Ironman 70.3 in Boise, ID on June 7, 2014!

Last updated by Candace Diaz on September 12th, 2017