Stu Krieger interviewed on Finding Founders podcast

Kimberly Guerrero voices a character on new Netflix series Spirit Rangers

Ruben Quesada edited Latinx Poetics, to be published by University of New Mexico Press

Alex Espinoza published in "Best American Mystery and Suspense"

Vickie Vertiz wins Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry from University of Notre Dame Press for her book Auto/Body

Susan Straight nominated for 2022 Kirkus Prize for her novel Mecca

Allison Hedge Coke nominated for 2022 National Book Award for her book of poetry, Look at This Blue

Ruben Quesada's poem "Oath Keeper" appears in the New York Times Magazine

Andrew Justvig's (writer) and Robin Russin's (director) film The Anxiety of Laughing is a finalist at the Conquering Disabilities Film Festival

Sara Borjas's poem "Post-Surgery, My Mother Promises to Change Again" appears in World Literature Today

Glaydah Namukasa has an essay in the anthology This Bridge Called Woman

Jasmine Elizabeth Smith chosen as Black Earth Institute Fellow

Vickie Vertiz has an article "Avenue 50 and other Eastside havens from gentrification" in the LA Times

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza announced forthcoming publication of her next book of poetry "I Don't Want to Be Understood" with Alice James Books in 2024

Aaron Higareda's play "South Street Hope" chosen to be produced for Best of Playground-LA

Courtney Cook's memoir The Way She Feels is a 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Bisexual Nonfiction

Eileen Waggoner's essay "Oranges" appears in the latest issue of The Roadrunner Review

Professor Susan Straight's latest novel Mecca launches this month

Rax Will has an article "Kishu ice cream from Mandarin Man and Awan adds a sweet note to Lunar New Year" in the LA Times

Vanessa Hua received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly for her new novel, Forbidden City

Victoria Patterson has "Family Portraits at Newport Beach Restaurants" in Citric Acid and an op-ed in Knock LA

Eileen Waggoner has an essay titled "Anatomy of a Moth" in drDoctor

Edgar Gomez's High Risk Homosexual reviewed in the New York Times

Rax Will has an article on "Finding the Flavors of Indonesia in LA" in the LA Times

Edgar Gomez's memoir High-Risk Homosexual was named a Best LBGTQ book by Harper's Bazaar and is on anticipated book lists by Electric Literature and LitHub

Miguel Martin Perez won the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize from PRISM International for his poem "Ways to Leave, or Waves"

Professor Alex Espinoza has an op-ed titled "My First Gay Role Model" in the LA Times

Professor Michael Jayme has an article titled "How My Family Grew With Christmas at the Movies" in the LA Times

Vanessa Hua has an article on ear spoons in the New York Times Magazine

Professor Susan Straight had an essay on the death of Joan Didion in the LA Times

Karly Thomas's play Scrambled Eggs was selected to be presented at the KCACTF Region 8 festival

Professor Robin Russin's script Mendoza the Jew won first place in the 26th Annual Fade In Awards

Carissa Atallah's Brown Face will be one of six plays performed at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Crystal Sala's chapbook Grief Logic won the Gunpowder Press Latinx Prize and will be published in April 2022

Sara Fowler has three poems in Interim Poetics

Soleil Garneau has two poems in The Spectacle

Stefani Cox has an essay titled "Searching for Sleeper Trains" in The Rumpus

Miguel Perez published three poems in the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly

Alicia Mosley published "Our Sestina" in Kweli Journal

Jasmine Elizabeth Smith is the winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize for her collection South Flight

Kyrié Owen's poem "Indian Crossword" appears in The Nasiona

Carissa Atallah's play "Voir Dire" is now published and licensed through Concord Theatricals

Miguel Martin Perez has a poem titled "Ode to Youth" in the

Rax Will has an essay titled "The Sorority Girl-to-Dyke Pipeline" in Into

Crystal Salas interviews former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Rivera in World Literature Today

Crystal Salas interviews former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove in World Literature Today

Ashanti Anderson's poem  "sister, pick which battle to win when you choose to lose the war" appears in The Rumpus

Soleil Garneau has two poems in Salt Hill

Vanessa Hua published "Asian Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents from Hate" in the New York Times

Soleil Garneau's poem "pulled corners" is published in The Poetry Project

Aaron Higareda's play South Hope St read at

Miranda Tsang published "True Crime Makes Us Think" on Netflix's Queue

Marcos Damián León's essay "Two Little Brown Girls" published in Taco Bell Quarterly

M. Fernanda Vidaurrazaga, JT Lachuasse, and Anne Hughes have launched a podcast Radio: Outcast available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Spotify and elsewhere

Eileen Waggoner has an essay titled "Call it Holy" in drDoctor

Professor Michael Jayme published "1181 Durfee Avenue" in Alta Journal.

Professor Allison Hedge Coke was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters

Professor Emeritus Mike Davis has been awarded the 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize

Vickie Vertiz wrote "Toyoteria: Jaime Muñoz’s Apparitions of Faith," the inaugural essay for the new arts and culture magazine Vicious Ladies

Professor Robin Russin co-wrote the forthcoming 2020 feature film, 2 Hearts, starring Jacob Elordi, Radha Mitchell, and Adam Canto

Clark Barclay's film Swimming with Florence was accepted for the Legacy Film Festival

Professor Allison Hedge Coke's poem "Viscera" is in World Literature Today

Amanda Oliver's book A Light: The American Public Library will be published by Chicago Review Press

Leelee Jackson is having a reading of her play Comb Your Hair or You'll Look Like a Slave through the Black Light Arts Collective on June 19

Carissa Atallah's play Voir Dire selected for 45th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival

Eileen Waggoner's essay "Kinship" published in Pangyrus

Professor Tom Lutz's Aimlessness: An Introduction will be published by Columbia University Press in January 2021.

Professor Laila Lalami has an essay "Bright Stars" excerpted from her upcoming book Conditional Citizens in Harper's Magazine.

Professor Susan Straight is interviewed by Alta for Alta Asks Live

Professor Allison Hedge Coke is named Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa for Spring 2020

Professor Alex Espinoza is in the Los Angeles Times with “Sheltering in place with lemons, guavas and a tiny backyard crucifix”

Courtney Cook has an essay "The Hair Dryer is Full of Souls & Other Facts in Lists" in Split Lip Mag

Professor Allison Benis White discusses her poem “The Track” with the Poetry Society

Rachelle Cruz has an article “Reaching Through the Screen: The Reality for Adjunct Professors During COVID-19” in Poets & Writers

Professor Susan Straight shares her quarantine diary in the Los Angeles Times

Vanessa Hua’s short story collection Deceit and other Possibilities is re-issued by Counterpoint

Kristen Brownell appears in the Huffington Post with the article “I Was Homeless. Now I’m Getting A Ph.D. Here’s What I Learned About Life On The Streets.”

Professor Susan Straight interviewed by NPR’s Code Switch about her memoir In The Country of Women

Vanessa Hua wins a prestigious Literature Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Amanda Oliver has an essay “Enough: Leaving Buffalo Behind” in The Rumpus

Courtney Lund O’Neil is in The Guardian with her article “Too broke to go home: how my college debt hinders the holidays”

Sara Borjas is profiled in Poets & Writers “Poetic Lenses: Our Fifteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetry”

MFA Candidate Amanda Oliver nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her essay  "Fourteen Women Playing One Guitar" in Electric Literature

Professor Laila Lalami will publish a book of nonfiction, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, in September 2020 with Pantheon Books

Kamala Puligandla’s novel Zigzags will be published with Not A Cult Press in April 2020

Dominic Mishler’s play November will have a full staging at the Long Beach Playhouse as part of their Collaborative Season on February 28 and 29

Fernanda Vidaurrazaga has her essay "Chess 101" in Inlandia Journal

Vickie Vertíz has her poem "Do you know what time it is?" in World Literature Today

Professor Michael Jayme on “My El Monte Halloweens” in the Los Angeles Times

Brenda Delfino has two poems in World Literature Today

Professor Michael Jayme has an essay "On Coming of Age in a Discount Supermarket” on Literary Hub

Professor Jane Smiley on “What St. Louis Tells Us About America” in the New York Times

Joseph Cárdenas has his essay "I Don't Sing You, America" in World Literature Today

Courtney Cook has her memoir The Way She Feels forthcoming from Tin House in Summer 2021

Minda Honey has her essay "On Finding the Freedom to Rage Against Our Fathers" in Literary Hub

Natassja Schiel has her essay “Finding my Father” on Longreads

Sara Borjas is interviewed on “Navigating Chicana Identity Through Poetry” in Electric Literature

Professor Tom Lutz has his essay "Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional  Critic Begins" in Literary Hub

Courtney Cook has her essay “Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible” in The Rumpus

Andy Holt shares “Three Days in Hell: The E3 Diaries, Part One” at The Hard Times

Ruben Quesada named Executive Director of Artes Americas, the largest Latinx-focused art center in Central California.

Minda Reves joined the Spalding University faculty as an Assistant Professor and Director of the BFA in Creative Writing program

Professor Allison Hedge Coke was invited to speak before the US House Committee on Veteran's Affairs to detail her film project, "Along the Chaparral: Memorializing the Enshrined"

Professor Allison Hedge Coke edited Effigies III: Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetry, which is recommended by NBC News

Professor Kimberly Guerrero to co-star in a pilot for the CBS drama "The Republic of Sarah"

Vanessa Hua's debut novel A River of Stars optioned for film

Edgar Gomez has a nonfiction essay "Malcriado" in the Spring 2019 issue of Ploughshares

Professor Laila Lalami's latest novel The Other Americans reviewed in The Atlantic

Sara Borjas's poetry collection Heart like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff is mentioned by NBC Latino, BookRiot, and O! The Oprah Magazine

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's poem "Birthday Suits" appears in Poetry

Ashanti Anderson's poem "Ode to Black Skin" appears in Poetry

Professor Laila Lalami's op-ed "I Am an Immigrant. Someday You Might Be, Too" appears in the New York Times

Amanda Oliver's essay "Fourteen Women Playing One Guitar" appears in Electric Literature

Carissa Atallah's play Voir Dire is one of four Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Finalists for the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award

Lauren Mauldin published an article about the tragic end to her husband's addiction in the Los Angeles Times

Sara Borjas has three poems published at The Rumpus

Brandon Williams has a short story in the spring issue of Threepenny Review 

Regina Louise has had her memoir, Somebody's Someone, made into a film. I Am Somebody's Child airs on Lifetime on April 20, 2019

Professor Allison Hedge Coke co-edited Effigies III, a collection of poetry by indigenous Pacific Islander women

Professor Allison Hedge Coke was selected as the Excellent Foreign Poet of the First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award, an inaugural international award for poetry with an internal nomination process 

Professor Allison Hedge Coke named 2019-20 US-Montenegro Fulbright Scholar

Professor Susan Straight's article "Finding a geography of home in the Inland Empire" is in the LA Times

Courtney Lund's essay, "My First Year of Motherhood Taught Me How to Make a Marriage Last," appears in O, The Oprah Magazine

 Vickie Vertiz's poem "Only we make things beautiful just to destroy them" selected as an Academy of American Poets' Poem of the Day

Professor Allison Hedge Coke makes the list of The American Academy of Poets' "Badass Women" with her poem, "America, I Sing You Back"

Angel Garcia's book of poetry, Teeth Never Sleep, longlisted for 2019 PEN America Literary Awards

Andrew Justvig's full-length play, "Turkey, Stuffing, and Cerebral Palsy," chosen as the regional finalist for National Partners of American Theatre Award

Michael Robinson's ten-minute play "Rabbits" chosen as a regional finalist for the Kennedy Center American College 

Theatre Festival, and also chosen as the region's finalist for the Planet Earth Award for plays dealing with environmental  issues     

Carissa Atallah's ten-minute play "Voire Dire" chosen as a regional finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival     

Jennier Espinoza's poem "Things Haunt" selected as an Academy of American Poets' Poem of the Day

Jo Scott-Coe received a review of her book, Mass: A Sniper, A Father, and a Priest, in River Teeth

Rachelle Cruz named Inlandia Institute Literary Laureate for 2018-2020

Vanessa Hua's novel A River of Stars is included on "best books of 2018" lists from The Washington Post and NPR

Michael Carnick's Manny Fantasma won a European Cinematography Award for Best Web/TV Series

Courtney Lund tells the story of her mother's role in the capture of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Harper's Bazaar

Eric Loya has a poem in the Fall 2018 issue of Prairie Schooner

Eva Konstantopoulos's film, Malevolent, featured on The Guardian's list of 10 scariest Netflix original movies     

Lauren Mauldin's essay How to Date Me (and my dead husband) published on Medium

Professor Robin Russin recently directed the independent feature film, When I Sing, co-starring Linda Chorney and Chris Mulkey, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival; the Special Jury Award for best low budget feature film at Worldfest Houston; and the Best U.S. Feature Film and the Grand Jury Award at Borderlands Film Festival. It has also been accepted as an official entry in the LA Femme International Film Festival in  Los Angeles; the East Lansing International Film Festival; Franklin International Independent FIlm Festival; and others

Professor Laila Lalami's latest novel, The Other Americans, now avaialble for pre-order

Flor Edwards discusses her book Apocolypse Child on Dr. Oz

Professor Katie Ford chats with The Rumpus about her new book of poetry, If You Have To Go

Sara Borjas has the poem of the day - "Lies I Tell" -  on Poets.org

Professor Allison Hedge Coke is one of the poets featured in the latest volume of American Poets in the 21st Century

Leelee Jackson's play Comb Your Hair (Or You'll Look Like a Slave) staged reading at the The Lyric Hyperion Theater 

Angel Garcia's Canto Prize-winning book of poetry, Teeth Never Sleep, now avaialble

Natassja Schiel's essay, "To Be Clean," is in Longreads

Vickie Vertiz's poem, "Laundromat," is in the San Fransico Chronicle

Professor Allison Hedge Coke and current MFA students featured in Press Enterprise article,"Why UC Riverside, local students are writing life stories of veterans buried at Riverside National Cemetery" 

Rachelle Cruz, winner of 2018 American Book Award for her poetry collection, God's Will for Monsters

Professor Laila Lalami announces her new novel, The Other Americans

Vanessa Hua interviewed on NPR about her new novel, A River of Stars

Professor Katie Ford announces publication of her latest book of poetry, If You Have To Go

Professor Charles Evered's film, Adopt a Sailor, now available to rent on Amazon Prime

Professor Allison Hedge Coke's poem "Temporal" featured in New York Times article, "Poetry is a Way of Being in the World That Wasn't Made for Us"

Professor Michael Jayme's essay, "The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold" appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books 

Professor Emily Rapp Black named Guggenheim Fellow