News from the School of IAS
Category: Alumni
MFA Alum Brent Cox launches The Topological Poetics Research Institute
School of IAS alumnus Brent Cox (MFA '17) is happy to announce the release of TPRI #1
December 28, 2022
MFA Alum Simon Wolf Teaches at Hugo House and leads Monthly Writing Circle
This winter Simon Wolf (MFA, 2022) will offer Place Based Poetics: Writing with the Duwamish River, a workshop through Hugo House, an essential literary community in Seattle.
December 28, 2022
MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy reads at Gig Harbor Poetry Festival
On October 9th 2022, MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics alum Nicole McCarthy (MFA 2017) was the keynote speaker for the Greater Gig Harbor Poetry Festival where she red from her new book, The Summoning.
October 17, 2022
UWB MACS Alum, Amadanyo Oguara, Publishes “The Singing Forest”
UWB MACS Alum, Amadanyo Oguara (2016), publishes their 5th book titled: "The Singing Forest."
September 7, 2022
MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy publishes her first book, A Summoning
Nicole McCarthy's (MFA 2017) first book, A Summoning, has just been published by Heavy Feather Review.
August 16, 2022
GWSS student Leah Curtis publishes Story of Pride with The Trevor Project
Leah Curtis (she/they) transferred to UW Bothell as a Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) major this academic year and she is already a published author! Curtis, a volunteer for the national organization The Trevor Project wrote a piece for their blog series Stories of Pride. In it ..
June 6, 2022
Melissa Watkinson-Schutten publishes “Decolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands”
IAS alum Melissa Watkinson-Schutten (B.A. in Global Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior; minor in Human Rights; M.A in Policy Studies) has published the article, 鈥淒ecolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands,鈥� in the prestigious Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, based on research she began while in IAS. ...
May 26, 2022
Marcus Johnson receives 鈥淓xcellence in Teaching Award鈥�
IAS alum Marcus Johnson received his bachelor's in Global Studies ('13), and a master's in Cultural Studies (’16). As a Cultural Studies student, he worked with IAS faculty member Ben Gardner on “The Multi Dimensions of Blackness: Cultural Hegemony in the United States and Abroad.” Johnson’s research stems from a “disquieting” encounter ..
May 6, 2022
Nicole McCarthy publishes creative essay “Touch”
Nicole McCarthy ('17) has a new micro essay out with PANK, one of the first pieces released from her second nonfiction book-in-progress. The micro, titled "Touch", explores the significance of physical touch in our lives and how living without it can feel like malnutrition ...
April 22, 2022
MFA alum Liezel Moraleja Hackett publishes with Sampaguita Press and Write or Die Tribe
Liezel Moraleja Hackett (MFA '17) never thought she would be writing about writing, but the MFA alum has discovered both the pleasure and community-building possibilities of sharing her poetics as a contributor to the website Write or Die Tribe, an online collective that provides resources for writers of all genres seeking, in their words ...
April 11, 2022