News from the Alumni Community

Becca Owen '18curatedGender Euphoria: Contemporary Art Beyond the Binary, an exhibition for the Five Oaks Museum featuring twelve contemporary transgender and gender non-conforming artists from the Pacific Northwest. The exhibit is entirely non-location based, including a website gallery, online programming and events, and more. You can see the art and participate no matter where you are located.

Alyssa Paparella '19was awardedthe prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dylan Doyle-Burke '12announcesRadical AI, a podcast he hosts featuring the voices of the future in the field of Artificial Intelligence Ethics. Radical AI lifts up people, ideas, and stories that represent the cutting edge in AI, philosophy, and machine learning. In a world where platforms far too often feature the status quo and the usual suspects, Radical AI is a breath of fresh air whose mission is “To create an engaging, professional, educational and accessible platform centering marginalized or otherwise radical voices in industry and the academy for dialogue, collaboration, and debate to co-create the field of Artificial Intelligence Ethics.”

年代arah Olmsted Thomas '08announces that her puppet theater company "Alex and Olmsted" was recently awarded a 2020 Jim Henson Foundation Grant to further develop their outer space show, "Marooned! A Space Comedy."

Thompson Street Opera Company will present a short opera byRebekah Driscoll '08, * / *在*故障系统:希望& Home* in Chicago. This work tells the stories of how four individuals became homeless and aims to deepen the audience's understanding of our national homelessness crisis. The multidisciplinary event will bring together artists of many mediums with social activists to engage as a community with the issue of homelessness and housing insecurity.

Chanel Blancett ’13,Chia-Ying Kao MFA ’12,年代ifiso Mabena MFA ’18, andMyra M. McPhee MFA ’19are among seven artists unveiling their work in Prospect Park on November 15, starting at the Boathouse and ending at Lefferts Historic House. The project, put on by The Creators Collective and Prospect Park Alliance, is the second wave ofArtists Elevating Immigrant Narratives, "a series of projects and events that elevate the narrative of immigration in America and engage art and activism in an environment that nurtures collaboration and results in meaningful action.”

Alison Walls MFA '07will be a guest scholar participating inNew York Shakespeare Exchange's next Freestyle Lab: Our Own Voices, Our Own Tongues on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the 53rd Street Library."Led by our curators and guest scholars, this lab will invite a discussion on Shakespeare and translation, asking us to consider how the work of a playwright who is known around the world might change as that work is "adopted" by other countries and cultures outside of his native England. What do we lose or gain when Shakespeare is translated out of its original text, and what are the different ways that translation can be its own creative act?"

Abigail Welhouse '09teaches therapeutic horseback riding lessons atGallopNYC:“毕业之后,搬到纽约,我wanted a way to stay involved with horses. We're in real need of volunteers to assist with our lessons for people with disabilities. You don't need to have prior experience—we will teach you what you need to know. If you're interested or someone you know in the New York metro area might be, pleasecheck out the websiteand feel free to email me with questions:abigail@gallopnyc.org．"

In summer 2019,Joanna Beacom '86studied ongoing research projects such as radio tracking, cheetah conservation, and ecosystem management as well as the design of school and community programs in Namibia as part ofMiami University's Earth Expeditionsglobal field course．Joanna, a music composer, lives in Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate student in Miami University's Global Field Program.

Jessica Wilkerson MA ’06will speak on “Prison Activism and the Organizing Tradition” atThe Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration (MUMI) Conferenceat the University of Mississippi, Oxford, December 4-6, 2019. “[MUMI] will bring together scholars, activists, policymakers, lawyers, students, and Mississippians to better understand the history of mass incarceration and shape the future of prison abolition.”

Clay McLeod Chapman ’00will write for Marvel’s Scream series, beginning with年代cream: Curse of Carnagewith art by Chris Mooneyham, to be released in November. “This is my first series beginning with a big ol’ numero uno up front and it’s an honor to be able to tell this story.”

Dominique Fluker '14joined thePackage Your Geniuspersonal branding podcast for "Episode 78: Safeguarding Your Mental Health as a High Achiever."

Justin Wayne Lutz ’10is currently featuring the work of fellow Alabama native and Director of the Alabama Prion Arts + Education ProjectKyes Stevens, MA '99, MFA '00on a panel for2019 Civic Institute, connecting civic-minded change-makers and thought leaders from across Alabama, taking place August 16. The panel is titled, "Inside Out: Strategies for Resisting Disconnection and Crafting Civic Identity in Alabama Communities and Prisons," which Lutz says, “Sounds like a conference paper if I ever heard one!”

The Wind-Bikeis the fourth book of poetry byKate Knapp Johnson ’79, MFA ’81(Writing), out now.

Kacen Callender '11was awarded the Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Award for their bookHurricane Childat the2019 Stonewall Book Awards Ceremonyon June 24.

Rachel Lit ’19spent her spring semester interning at the Climate Museum on a program calledClimate Speaks, a spoken word poetry program for NYC area high school students about climate change, which culminates in a spoken word concert at the Apollo Theater on June 14 at 7 p.m.Tickets available online．

PANTHEONby Happenstance Theater, featuringCraig Jaster '83and年代arah Olmsted Thomas '08, will be at Joe's Movement Emporium (3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mt Rainier, MD 20712) June 18-July 1. "The Happenstance quintet delves into Ancient Greek Mythology with guest artist Craig Jaster generating a live musical score. In a pared-down 1940’s aesthetic, a chorus of workers assembles lightning bolts and mines the Underworld. Like Sisyphus they must endlessly repeat their tasks. With an ample smattering of amusement, the performers invoke the Muses, offer Sacrifice, suffer Hubris, consult Oracles, and meet Fate as they portray an array of mortals and Gods whose flaws reflect their own."Tickets available online．

年代it How You WantbyRobin Richardson MFA '12is a finalist for the2019 Trillium Book Award/Prix Trilliumfor Poetry in English language, the Ontario Government’s prestigious award for literature for four separate prizes．The winners will be announced on June 13, 2019.

Ann Cefola '81, MFA '97is the translator of French poet Hélene Sanguinetti'sThe Hero(Chax Press, 2018), a book-length poem that explores the delusions of war.

Elisabeth von Uhl MFA '05hastwo poems inWatershed Review．

Cuando Callo Mi Cuerpo Habla, the first book of poems in English and Spanish byEmilia Grace Dominguez Skidmore ’03是聚氨酯blished and is available for purchase online. The translated title isWhen I Am Silenced My Body Speaks．Her first reading will be in July in Mexico City.

"I Am Not Trying To Hide My Hungers From The World Anymore," a poem by faculty memberKendra DeColo '05was published inAmerican Poetry Review．

The Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition will open Saturday, April 27, 3-6 p.m. at Wallach Art Gallery, where年代hireen Abrishamian ’15(asXirin)will be showing a performative film and installation titledHope Eats the Soul, which will remain on view through May 26, 2019. You can view a teaser for the projecthere．

Lock Downby Christine Marglin, akaChristine Benvenuto ’82, is one of the short plays selected for production in the 21stBoston Theater Marathonat the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.

The award-winning Happenstance Theater announces the world premiere ofPantheon．偶发事件五重奏探讨古代Greek mythology with guest artistCraig Jaster ’83generating a live musical score. In a pared-down 1940’s aesthetic, a chorus of workers assembles lightning bolts and mines the Underworld. Like Sisyphus they must endlessly repeat their tasks. With an ample smattering of amusement, the performers invoke the Muses, offer Sacrifice, suffer Hubris, consult Oracles, and meet Fate as they portray an array of mortals and Gods whose flaws reflect their own. Featuring Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell, Gwen Grastorf,年代arah Olmsted Thomas ’08, Alex Vernon and Craig Jaster ’83. Two sets of performances are currently scheduled forApril 4-14 at Baltimore Theater ProjectandJune 18-July 1 at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mt Rainier．

Melanie Griffith MFA ’11has co-founded the Rhode Island School for Progressive Education (RISPE). RISPE is Rhode Island’s first and only residency-style graduate school of education. Its purpose is to recruit, train, and support teachers and school leaders of color for Rhode Island’s urban public schools. RISPE believes strongly in social justice, anti-racist pedagogy, and the power of public education to transform society. RISPE was unanimously granted initial institutional approval by the Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education on March 20th, 2019, and it the first stand-alone institution of higher education approved by the council since 1964. RISPE anticipates a launch in June 2020.

A poem byAbigail Welhouse ’09has been adapted into choral work by composer and poet Dale Trumbore that will be performed intwo concerts in New York Cityon April 28 and 29.

Carnegie Hill, the first novel fromJonathan Vatner MFA ’11comes out August 20 from Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. The novel chronicles the lives of four couples in a wealthy Upper East Side co-op apartment building, a hotbed of gossip and neighborly feuding.

“The Supplicant Undertaker” byChristine Quattro MFA '17has been published online inThe Rumpus．

"年代elf-Contained," an essay byTania Pabon MFA ’17是聚氨酯blished online byCosmonauts Avenue．

Veera Hiranandani MFA ’96will be presented with theMalka Penn Award for Human Rightsin Children’s Literature for her bookThe Night Diaryon Tuesday, April 9, at Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut (405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205, Storrs, CT).

Nicaragua 1978–2018: Susan Meiselas, an exhibition featuring works by U.S. documentary photographer年代usan Meiselas ’70opens at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury on Monday, March 25 with public talks by Susan Meiselas and Mercedes Doretti at 1 p.m. and an opening reception at 4 p.m.. Taken mostly in color, Meiselas’s photographs of the Nicaraguan revolution sparked by the assassination of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the editor of the opposition newspaperLa Prensa, have become iconic images that epitomize the courage and resolve of ordinary people. Meiselas’s book,Nicaragua June 1978– July 1979最早出版于1981年,成为contemporary classic that makes a significant contribution to the literature of concerned photojournalism. The exhibition runs through May 2, 2019.

On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 4 p.m., theManhattan Chamber Players will performa new composition byMary L. Bianco '61along with musical works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Max Bruch in the Conservatory's Recital Hall in White Plains for a free, public concert.

In 2010,Ali Liebegott '98, MFA 99took a road trip by train. Destination: the Emily Dickinson house. Along the way, she interviewed poets, including faculty member Marie Howe.The Believer is reposting the seriesto celebrate the release of Liebgott’s new book,The Summer of Dead Birds．

年代tatues Also Fall In Love, a solo exhibition byAura Rosenberg ’71, features lenticular prints and sculpture and is on view at Martos Gallery (41 Elizabeth St) in New York through April 14, 2019.

The Sanctuary Gallery at the Rockland Congregational Church in Maine will reopen witha show byNancy Glassman '73, Sunday, April 14. The show will continue until Sunday, May 12.

The dessert menu at Le Virtù in Philadelphia, co-owned byCatherine Lee '88, includes Sanctuary Bread Pudding, with all proceeds going to an asylum-seeking family. The fundraiser was featured inan article byThe Inquirer．

A talk given byJane Freeman ’71about her art is now available to view onYouTube．

Ann Cefola '81 MFA '97and Ann Lauinger (literature) will be reading with年代ally Bliumis-Dunn MFA ’02andMargo Stever MFA ’88in a new poetry series at the Desmond Fish Library in Garrison, New York on April 13 from 2-4 p.m. Cefola and Stever will also be reading at the JCC of Tarrytown on April 28 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Sundays with George Poetry Series. View a selected reading from Cefola'sFree Ferryonline．

Flatiron Books has publishedDrive-Thru Dreams, a look at American culture, history, and identity through the prism of fast food, byAdam Chandler MFA ’10．

Burden Sparked with Eternity: ABC Poems and Others of a Grandchild's First Decade, a chapbook byMarilynn Talal ’59, will be published in April by Presa Press. Presa Press also published her chapbookThe Blue Road: Poems of Marriage and Caregivinglast year.

The filmThe Rest I Make Upfrom producerHeather Winters '84will bescreened at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London April 5-9．

at the last minute, the third full-length poetry collection byEstha Weiner ’72, will be published by Salmon Poetry in March.

Best Friends in the Universeby年代tephanie Watson ’01is a finalist for the2019 Minnesota Book Awards．Winners will be announced on April 6, 2019.

Pam Tanowitz MFA ’98was namedBard Fisher Center’s first Choreographer in Residence．A major component of the residency will be the development of a digital archive of Tanowitz’s oeuvre, including the remounting and documentation of several of her performances. These archival initiatives will make her body of work more widely accessible to dance scholars, students, and the general public.

“Watching the Black Body” byMalkia Cyril ’96, which was originally published inThe End of Trust (McSweeney's 54)是聚氨酯blished by the Electronic Frontier Foundationonline．

Joni Iraci ’13announces the publication of her debut novelReinventing Jenna Roseby Fat Dog Books Inc in June. The novel’s first draft was written in Sarah Lawrence’s visiting professor Martha Southgate’s writing workshop in 2008. “Martha refused to let me give up and I didn’t. Thank you Sarah Lawrence.”

Casta, a bilingual hybrid performance piece byAdrienne Dawes ’04, premieres in The Blanton Museum of Art (200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) this fall alongside exhibitPainted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America, which will feature casta paintings from Lima and Puebla.Castais inspired by a series of casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera. Casta paintings were a unique form of portraiture that grew in popularity over the 18^thcentury in Nueva España that depicted different racial mixtures arranged according to a hierarchy defined by Spanish elites. Performances will run from November 2-21.

Mujah Mariani-Melehi ’92will show her personal visual memoir film/documentaryHaiku on a Plum Treeat the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU (24 West 12th St) onMonday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m.with her aunt, Italian author Dacia Maraini.

Chloe Honum '03was awarded the2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, New Zealand’s most prestigious writing fellowship. “It will allow me to research and work on a manuscript of poems for four months at the Sargeson Centre, in the heart of Auckland City. I grew up in Auckland, and to be returning with the purpose of writing as a Sargeson Fellow is beyond thrilling.”

Exposition ReviewnominatedJen Sage-Robison ’95for a Pushcart Prize for her poem, “Before I Knew What Mania Was．”

Miserable Adventure Stories, a new short story collection fromAlex Bernstein ’85, has won theBest Indie Book Award for 2018在中篇小说和短篇小说类别集合。The Best Indie Book Award™ is an annual international literary award contest recognizing independent authors in twelve major genres. Entries are limited to independently (indie) published books, including those from small presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors. Featuring stories fromNew Pop Lit,The Big Jewel,Frontier Tales,Near to the Knuckle,Headstuff, and other literary journals with equally fancy names,Miserable Adventure Storiesis available in paperback and as an e-book at Amazon.com and fine bookstores everywhere.

“Pharmacy,” a short story by年代hay Siegel MFA ’15, was selected for publication in Z Publishing House's anthology ofAmerica's Emerging Writersin December, 2018.

Michaela Brady ’17will be on a panel at BETT, London's leading educational technology industry show, on January 24^th．As part of Microsoft Education'sTransformation Leadership Forum, she will discuss social and emotional learning, provide insight on student mental health, and present an app she developed for Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2018 Finals that connects college students to their institution's mental health services.

Meg Lindsay ’98has 3 paintings juried into theUpstream Gallery’s Small Works show January 3-27 (8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson). Regular hours are Thursday-Sunday 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Jannie Wolff ’87shares that the episode of The Cooking Channel’s “Late Night Eats” that she was a part of the filming for in the restaurant Antique Bar & Bakery had its first showing. It can be viewedonline here．

Eugenia Lovett West ’42ispublishing her fourth book,年代arah's War, in April 2019. Set during the Revolutionary War, West paints the riveting tale of Sarah Champion–a young Patriot from rural Connecticut– as she spies on British officers, goes to Valley Forge about a plot to kill Washington, and ultimately digs deep for the strength and courage to overcome the threats she faces. Champion's efforts are driven by her determination to realize her only dream: being part of the formation of a new and independent country.

A poem byGabrielle Calvocoressi '96, “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” was recently published inThe New Yorker．

The New York TimesnamedTransaction HistoriesbyDonna Stonecipher '91one of the ten best poetry books of the year.

Rebecca Wellner '14co-authoreda paper inCortexon the use of brain stimulation for speech production. Wellner is currently an MS candidate in Speech Pathology at NYU.

The new production ofThe Mar Vista: In Search of My Mother’s Love Life, a play with music and dance created by award-winning Brooklyn-based playwright/choreographerYehuda Hyman MFA ‘14, will run at the Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42^nd年代treet in Manhattan from Tuesday, March 5 through Sunday, March 24.

Necessary Fictionhas published a short story by年代amantha Paige Rosen MFA ’17, “Hollywood & Highland．”

Rena Trefman Cobrinik ’92recently published the memoirA Different Mother, which just won first prize at the Independent Authors Book Expo. “The memoir portrays a strong vibrant woman—the backbone of a lively and creative immigrant family—and follows her into old age and a compassionate care facility. As she declines, she reveals unexpected strength—sometimes subtle and sometimes jarringly blunt—of a victorious life.”

The Rest I Make Up, a documentary from producerHeather Winters ’84madeThe New Yorker’s list of “The Best Movies of 2018．”

Alice S. Kandell ’60was profiled inThe New York Timesabout her 50-year passion for Tibetan Buddhist Artifacts.

Missy Pfohl Smith MFA ‘02is the Artistic Director of the modern dance companyBIODANCEand the Director of the Institute for the Performing Arts and the Program of Dance and Movement at University of Rochester.

"Three Hasidic Dances," an essay byYehuda Hyman MFA ’14will be included in the new anthology,Dance in America, published by Library of America, edited by Mindy Aloff, with a foreword by Robert Gottlieb. The essay was originally published in年代eeing Israeli and Jewish Danceby Judith Brin Ingber.

Rakia Seaborn MFA '14will perform as part ofAlex Romania's Hot Consumer Trashat Brooklyn Studios for Dance (210 Lafayette Avenue). Tickets are $20.

An article featuringPamela Hart MFA ’04and her work as a writing mentor for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project is in the new December issue ofO The Oprah Magazine, "Writing Wrongs．” There are links to information about her soon-to-be-published poetry collection,Mothers Over Nangarhar, which will be released in January 2019.

Waddington Custot, London, presents the first solo exhibitionof American sculptorJedd Novatt ‘80, “Conversations with Gravity,” on view on November 20, 2018. The exhibition will be on view through January 30, 2019 at Waddington Custot (11 Cork Street, London).

Jenna Ruth ’11spoke toVFX Voiceabout her role as associate VFX artist at Insomniac Games and working on惊奇的年代pider-Man．

Michele Turchin Mirman ’73was listed inCity & State's “The 2018 Women Power 100,”a list of the 100 most powerful women in New York. "Michele Mirman, the former president of the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association, was elected to lead the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, an organization whose members Gov. Andrew Cuomo once referred to as 'the single most powerful political force in Albany.'"

Pam Tanowitz MFA ’98has begun to choreograph a dance on the Paul Taylor Dance Company to the music of Johann Sebastian Bachas a Guest Resident Choreographer of Paul Taylor American Modern Dance. Her new work will premiere as part of Orchestra of St. Luke's Bach Festival next June, and will then be part of PTAMD's Fall Lincoln Center Season.

Heidi Howard ’08collaborated with her mother, sound artist Liz Phillips, on “Relative Fields in a Garden,” a multimedia mural and sound work at the Queens Museum until August 2019 as part ofthe eighthQueens International．

Jannie Wolff '87is curating an art event at Antique Loft at Riverview in Hoboken Tuesday, November 13. Contact Jannievia emailor on Instagram@jannie_wolfffor more information.

Oranges, a short story collection fromGary Eldon Peter MFA ’96, was published by New Rivers Press.

“Core Being” byJaclyn Gilbert MFA ‘15was published online byTin House．

After playing the patriarch in Lin Manuel Miranda'sIn The Heightson Broadway,Rick Negron ’83will join Lin in his return to the title role of Alexander Hamilton forthe Puerto Rico run ofHamilton．Rick is returning to his homeland playing King George III. This production will be a fundraiser for Lin's Flamboyan Arts Foundation. Supporting the arts on the island after the devastation of hurricane Maria. The National tour will then move for an extended run in San Francisco from February 2019 till January 2020.

Emma Bolden ’02shares: “My third full-length poetry collection,House Is an Enigma, won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize and was published by Southeast Missouri State University Press. Written after my radical hysterectomy, the poems launch an investigation of the language used to house descriptions of the body, which so often seek to define and determine the boundaries and behaviors of the spirit that lives within.”

“Goblins in N’Awlins,”a recent composition byMary Bianco ’61, will premiere this Sunday, October 28, on the final day of the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival for which it was commissioned at Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church (3900 St. Charles Avenue) in New Orleans.

Beverly Falk ’70is pleased to announce the release of her new book,High Quality Early Learning for a Changing Worldby Teachers College Press. "This concise and accessible resource provides an overview of the fundamentals of teaching in early childhood settings (pre-K–2), with a focus on what high-quality practices look like. It details the features of developmentally appropriate, linguistically responsive, culturally relevant/sustaining teaching and how this approach can prepare our youngest citizens for the challenges of our 21st-century world. Beginning with what the research tells us about how young children develop and learn, Falk shows how to create learning environments, plan, teach, and assess in ways that support children’s optimal development. Specific strategies are described and explained, such as setting up the classroom environment and schedule, making smooth transitions, using effective communication strategies, and creating home–school partnerships.”

Barococoby Happenstance Theater, featuring年代arah Olmsted Thomas ’08andCaleb Jaster ’16, will be playing at Baltimore Theatre Project Oct 25-Nov 11, 2018. “In this collaboratively devised ensemble work, Happenstance Theater portrays oblivious entitlement on the brink of extinction. We take a physical comedy dive into the late Baroque. We flaunt 18th century finery, wigs, panniers, gestural styling, elaborate ornamentation and the excesses of Rococo. We navigate the dangerous curves of manners and the Age of Enlightenment from the exquisite to the revolting. What fun we will have puncturing one percent pomposity!”Information and tickets forBarococoonline．

Judy Klass ’88shares: “My new, fairly topical musical, riffing onA Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens will have a reading next Sunday. I'm flying in to NYC for the event. You can buy a ticket for $10, but if you show up and say you are being comped in, you will be!”Information and tickets for年代enator Scroogeonline．

在北安普敦A.P.E.画廊将显示陶瓷murals byJudith Inglese '65and assemblages by Bernice Rosenthal for the month of November. The exhibit, entitled “Lost and Found,” speaks to the process of re-incarnation and transformation.

Inthe current issue ofThe Georgia Review, Jonathan Blunk, author of the recent biography of James Wright,A Life in PoetryconsidersCherokee Road Kill, the third collection of poetry fromCelia Bland ’85, in the lights of her previous books,年代oft BoxandMadonna Comix．

年代oledad Fox Maura ‘90, author of the new biographyExile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún(published by Arcade Publishing), will introduce a rare screening of Alain Resnais’La Guerre est Finie, starring Yves Montand on Sunday, October 7 at Film Forum in NYC. Semprún’s screenplay, based largely on his own experiences as an agent for the Spanish Communist party, earned him his first Academy Award nomination. On Monday, October, 8 she will introduce a screening of Jorge Semprún’s sole directorial credit,Les Deux Mémoires, an interrogation of the origins, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War, with all-star narrators Yves Montand, Maria Caesares, Costa-Gavras, et al. This film has never been screened in the U.S. English-language subtitles were created especially for this screening.

Elizabeth Schwartz ’81shares:Arc Music UKreleases Yale Strom's Broken Consort: "Shimmering Lights", a new recording of ancient to brand-new Khanike songs performed by strings and voice; the songs come from Morocco, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Poland and America and are presented with lush and dynamic new arrangements. Available where all music is sold on CD and download.

Marian Hyun ’77, Artistic Director for Jazz Choreography Enterprises, shares this upcoming event: The JCE Jazz Dance Project is a celebration of jazz dance featuring original works by emerging and established choreographers. Audiences of all ages will be treated to dances in a variety of jazz styles—from swing to contemporary—and the chance to see the richness of this great American art form. Performances are on October 27 at 8:00 and October 28 at 4:00. For more information:http://www.jazzchoreography.com/project/october-2018

Pieter Estersohn ’82shares, “This week marks the publication of my newest Rizzoli book,Life Along The Hudson, The Historic Country Estates Of The Livingston Family．Although I have provided photography on more than 60 books on architecture, design, and travel, this is the first book I researched in depth and wrote as well as photographed. The book covers the homes of these erudite and fascinating relations , built between 1680 and 1946, and covers the history of American design as well as the political, social, and artistic legacy of this most eccentric family.”

Erica Ryan '98announces the publication of her second book, titledWhen the World Broke in Two: the Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars．The book is a history of the deep cultural divides of the 1920s, which are, in sometimes surprising ways, the same cultural divides America battles over today.

Estha Weiner ’72is teaching a one-day intensive with theWriting Instituteon campus, Stealing from the Poet's Tool Box: A Workshop for Fiction Writers, on Saturday, November 3. For more information and to register,visit the website．

After decades of translating catalogues, cookbooks and whatnot,Regan Kramer '79is exceedingly proud to announce Simon & Schuster's publication of her translation of等待如比尔by Olivier Bourdeaut. The novel, an international best-seller that has been translated into over 30 languages, is the "dark, funny and wholly charming tale of a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the harsh realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways."

The Nap, featuringMax Gordon Moore ’00, is running at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) through November 11, 2018. Moore takes on two characters in the comedy about competitive snooker: the tournament emcee and Tony DanLino, the young snooker whiz's oily agent.

Miles Coon MFA ’02shares the details for the upcoming15^thAnnual Palm Beach Poetry FestivalJanuary 21-26, 2019. Faculty poets include: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Sarah Lawrence faculty member Aracelis Grimay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Sarah Lawrence faculty member Gregory Pardlo, and Eleanor Wilner. Special guest poet Sharon Olds will be interviewed by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and give the Annual Thomas Lux Memorial Reading. I-on-I Conferences: Lorna Knowles Blake,年代ally Bliumis-Dunn MFA ’02, Nickole Brown. The deadline to apply for workshops is November 12, 2018.

Not for Nothing: Glimpses Into a Jersey GirlhoodbyKathy Curto ’89, MFA ’12,Writing Institutefaculty member, will be released by Bordighera Press this December.

Voyage Theater Company/PARTS UNKNOWN Play Reading Series will present a staged reading of Turkish playwright Sedef Ecer'se-smuggler.com, in a new English-language translation byAmelia Parenteau ’13, at the 53rd Street New York Public Library (18 W 53 St), Thursday October 18 at 7 p.m.RSVP online．

Eden Turned on its Side, an exhibition of works byMeridel Rubenstein ’69is currently being presented by Peters Projects in Santa Fe and will run through October 27. “The three series being exhibited arePhotosynthesis,Volcano CycleandEden in Iraq．Together they engage ecologies on the telescoping scales of human, geological and mythical time. Photosynthesis reveals the cycles of the seasons, Volcano Cycle the deep spanning of time over tens of thousands of years and Eden in Iraq by the eternal time of religious cosmologies. These works are presented in formats including archival pigment on aluminum, linen, dye sublimation on aluminum and jacquard woven tapestry.”

New work from sculptorJedd Novatt ’80will beexhibited at Waddington Custotin London November 20 to January 30. The exhibition will comprise of new, large-scale sculptures from Novatt’sChaosseries.

“Rocket Rabbit Saves The Day” byChesta Wadhwani MFA ’17发表在《文选题为年代even Minute Stories for Seven Year Oldsby Scholastic India.

When We Went Electronic, a new play written byCaitlin Saylor Stephens ’08, will be at The Tank (312 West 36th Street, First Floor) October 25 – November 11. Tickets available online.

Mariah Smith ’13is hostingPick Me Up, a new podcast from Lyft and Gimlet Creative all about Lyft drivers who are chasing big dreams, both on and off the road.

Meghann Plunkett ’09has been named afinalist forBest New Poets 2018．Her poem "In Which I Name My Abuser Publicly" will be included in the annual anthology.

Alexis Isabel ’09invites alumni to her Alexis Isabel Trunk Show at Wolf & Badger (95 Grand St, New York) on Saturday, October 6 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Meet the designer and shop the new collection. 20% of proceeds will benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation for breast cancer research. RSVP toinfo@alexisisabel.com．

Marguerite Bennett MFA ’13is now a writer for theMighty Morphin Power Rangerscomic series, beginning with issue #31, released September 26.

Christine Toy Johnson ’81will star in the touring production ofCome From Away, which begins in Seattle beginning October 9.

Grids: A Selection of PaintingsbyLynne Golob Gelfman '66opens September 15 at the Perez Art Museum Miami and runs until April 21, 2019.

John Jasperse ’85, Director of the Dance Program returns to The Joyce (175 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011) September 24-28 to presentHinterland．“A varied group of dancers, including Jasperse, comes together with a commissioned score by Hahn Rowe, to build a micro-community, where dance is both celebration and a refuge from the wreckage of culture and history.Hinterlandis performed by DeAngelo Blanchard, Eleanor Hullihan, Jasperse, Mina Nishimura, and Antonio Ramos, with costumes by Kota Yamazaki and lighting by Joe Levasseur.”Visit The Joyce online for more information and tickets．

Dietrich Rides Again, the one-woman show about Marlene Dietrich written and directed byOliver Conant ’77, will be presented at the United Solo Festival on September 24 at 7:30 p.m. on Manhattan's Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street). Tickets available through www.telecharge.com or call 212-239-6200.

Mai Perkins MFA ’06published her first manuscript,The Walking Nerve-Ending．“TWNEis a 120-page collection that takes readers on a fanciful journey. It represents everything love, family, friendship and community, meticulously crafted in rhyming/free-verse poetry and prose. Many of these poems I toiled with during workshop at Sarah Lawrence while working on my MFA with my thesis advisor, Tom Lux.” The Kindle version debuted on Amazon as the "#1 New Release in African American Poetry" during the first week.

Jeremie Gluckman ’13andCharles Peoples III ’12will be performing contemporary dance for the first-everTrans and Friends Rallyas part of Silicon Valley Pride on Saturday, August 25, at Plaza de César Chávez (1 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose) beginning at 4:30 p.m. The rally will showcase local Bay Area speakers and performers and is free and open to the public.

The Rise of Genderqueer, the third collection of poetry fromWren Hanks '08, will be releasedin September from Brain Mill Press. The collection "marks a new departure for this accomplished poet, exploring intimate themes with broad appeal and taking on challenging questions about what it means to write about trans bodies with empathy and desire in our current political moment."

Rachelle Cruz ’07has been recognized with a2018 American Book Awardfor去d’s Will for Monsters．The winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 28 at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco, California.

Tommy Pico ’06has been recognized with a2018 American Book AwardforNature Poem．The winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 28 at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco, California.

Charles Peoples III ’12recently started anIndiegogo campaignfor his debut album. “I've always been a singer, and I've always wanted to do my own music. Now I am finally directing all of my energy toward that and going for it!”

Julia Miele Rodas ’86is happy to share news about the publication her new book. “Autistic Disturbancesargues that autistic uses of language have been present in and an important contributing factor in many familiar texts. Includes chapters on Andy Warhol,Frankenstein, andRobinson Crusoe(the latter influenced by a seminar I taught as a visiting professor at SLC--thanks!). If this is your sort of thing, please come hear more at my talk in NYC on the evening of September 5.”

The cookbook年代poonbread and StrawberryWine, co-authored by卡罗e Darden-Lloyd ’66and her sisterNorma Jean Darden ’61, has been listed by年代outhern Livingas one of the best 100 cookbooks ever written. The book was first published by Doubleday in 1978 and follows the history of their family through recipes, reminiscences and very old photographs. It is available onAmazon．

Cynthia Kane MFA ’06shares: “My latest bookTalk to Yourself Like a Buddhistwas published in April 2018 by Hierophant Publishing. My DailyOM course ‘How to Communicate Like a Buddhist’ has had over 25,000 people take the course, and I've created a certification program in Intentional Communication for coaches, therapists, educators, social works and those in the healing profession to be able to use the practice in their work.”

On Monday, August 13, at 6 p.m.,年代tephen Fife ’77will be at the Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village, giving an hour-long reading from his new novel, Angel's Glance (coming out mid-August from Cune Press). “This will be the 11th book I've had published, but my first novel, so I'm very excited about it.” There's a $10 cover and a one drink minimum.

Ian Spencer Bell ’13will be performingMarrowat the Sommers Studio atJacob's Pillow(358 George Carter Rd, Becket, MA) on Sunday, August 5, at 1:15 p.m.Marrowis a dance with 10 original poems about growing up queer in rural Virginia. Dancers Gary Champi and Joshua Tuason join him in the performance. The 20-minute show is free, but seating is limited. For more information, visitBell’s website, and read his poem fromMarrow, “Repast,” inThe Gay and Lesbian Review．

The Knish War on Rivington StreetbyJoanne Oppenheim ’60was chosen as a Sydney Taylor Notable Book for 2018, it was a PJ Library selection and won the Guides of New York Apple Award for Fiction. It's a picture book, for 5-8's, a work of historic fiction based on a true event that happened on the Lower East Side in 1916. “I'm having good fun sharing the story with family groups around the country in person and via skype.” You can learn more ather website．

Mike Soto MFA ’09was awarded a James Merrill Poetry Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center for the spring of 2018.

Gaslit Nation,a politics podcast from DAME hosted by年代arah Kendzior ’00and Andrea Chalupa, launched July 9.

年代poken Word Sundays NYCon Sunday, September 2, from 4-6 p.m. at The Parkside Lounge (317 East Houston Street) will featureJason Irwin MFA ’04andJee Leong Koh MFA ’05．There is a $3 suggested donation and two drink minimum.

Corelyn Senn ’64was featured in a piece for thePen Bay Pilot, “This Week in Lincolnville: One Determined Woman．”

Fireside Magazine, with managing editorElsa Sjunneson-Henry MA ’11, was nominated for aHugo Awardthis year in the Best Semiprozine category. The Hugo Award winners will be announced at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, August 19, 2018 at Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California.

Melissa Faliveno MFA ’11published an essay in the Summer 2018 issue of公关airie Schooner．"The Finger of God" is about tornadoes, faith, myth, and the Midwest. It was the runner-up for the 2017 Nonfiction Prize, judged by Esmé Weijun Wang.

Tommy Pico ’06has a new podcast with Tin House Books calledJunk．Pico “interviews a treasure trove of cultural luminaries about relics, keepsakes, and rando baubles in their apartments, sussing out the stories of their Junk.”

Victoria Smolkin ’02wrote an opinion piece forThe Washington Post, “This is what it feels like to be separated at the border．”

Marilynn Glick Talal ’59has released a poetry chapbook,The Blue Road – Poems of Marriage and Caregiving．“Talal shares her experiences as wife and caregiver in twenty-one autobiographical poems that evoke tenderness, humor, sadness and longing.”

Three alumni reported graduating from top ten law schools this year:Mallory Craig-Karim ’15from University of Virginia School of Law,Nate Montalto ’15from the University of Michigan, andAri Jones ’14from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Gabriel Judet-Weinshel ’01shares, “I wrote-directed-scored an award-winning indie film,7 Splinters in Time, that just landed a theatrical distribution deal and will be out in select US theaters (and video on demand) July 13. The film was DP-ed by former SLC faculty member George Nicholas, our associate producer/unit production manager wasKenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn ’02, and finally, one of our starring roles is named after SLC's Ilja Wachs! It's a tiny movie, but we have ambitious hopes for it, and we're hoping it propels a handful of fledging careers.”Watch the film’s trailer online．

Patricia Bosworth ’55was interviewed byCBS This Morningabout her book,Dreamer With a Thousand Thrills: The Rediscovered Photographs of Tom Palumbo, a collection of photographs taken by her husband, who passed away in 2008. Palumbo was a fashion photographer in the 50s and 60s. The book includes photos of Miles Davis, Gloria Vanderbilt, Grace Kelly, Jack Kerouac, and Mia Farrow.

Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf, written byKate Scelsa ’02, was reviewed inThe New York Times．"Fortunately, Ms. Scelsa has a take-no-prisoners approach to satire that sends deconstructionist theories of feminist and gender studies way up into the ether, where they flare and fizzle like fireworks."

Paula Rudnick ’72was a guest onEpisode 4: Paula Rudnick on her poetry, coping with Trump, and Lil Wayneof Persisters Podcast, hosted byBeth Rowe ’09．

The latest volume of poetry fromMichael Leong MFA ’03,Words On Edge, was recently released by Black Square Editions. In a review that appeared in年代eedings #5(Spring 2018), John Olson says, "Michael Leong’s poetry is exquisite. We say something is exquisite when it is alluring and elegant, but also when it is razor-fine, when it has an edge, and that edge might be used to slice open a section of air and pull something out of it that hadn’t existed before, something that we did not know existed, something that existed outside of language and was conjured into being by an unorthodox employment of that very same language. This is called invention, and can lead to great and wonderful things, what André Breton would call the marvelous.”

For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems, the debut poetry collection fromMolly Fuller MFA ’07, was published by All Nations Press. Fuller's book has been reviewed inRain Taxi Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2018 (#89) by Matthew Duffus and inPoetry Mattersby Barbara Sabol. Both Duffus and Sabol commend the unique hybrid form and the timely and topical relevance of this collection in relation to the #metoo movement.

Danny Katz ’99is excited to announce his return to the late night NYC cabaret stage, courtesy of Billy Anderson's semi-annual punk/rock/pop cabaret! #RIPSEYRESISTS: An Election Night PTSD Musical Comedy will be Saturday, July 21, at 11:30 p.m. at Feinstein's/54 Below (254 W 54th St.). Tickets availableonline．

The Lucinda Childs Dance Company makes their Mostly Mozart Festival debut withAvailable Lightat the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall (Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor) July 12–13. “Renowned postmodern choreographerLucinda Childs ’62arranges and rearranges her dancers in the three-dimensional space of Frank Gehry’s stark, split-level set, creating kaleidoscopic textures that echo the restless phase shifts, ambient washes, and fractured fanfares of John Adams’s work for synthesizer and recorded brass,Light Over Water．”

Cosima Littlewood ’15is at the Cannes Film Festival with her film,Be Natural: the Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché．The documentary, which Littlewood co-produced, premiered on Friday in the Cannes Classics category.

Chongren Fan MFA ’13is directing Friedrich Durrenmatt'sRomulus the Greatfor Yangtze Repertory Theatre's 26th season.Merrick Williams’14is the production stage manager,Rourou Ye MFA ’17is the movement director andJim Shankman MFA ’06plays the title role. Set in a fictional Roman Empire, emperor Romulus the Great chose not to be “great.” Facing the increasing peril of the Germanic invasion and the demise of the Empire, Romulus prefers to stay at home breeding chickens. Is his refusal of responsibility to govern stupidity? Or does he have other plans? Tickets on sale:https://www.yzrep.org/romulus

American SocialistbyElizabeth Schwartz ’81has opened in SoCal. “From May 4-10, our film plays at the Laemmle theatres in Santa Monica and Pasadena. May 11-16, the film runs at Digital Gym in San Diego. See it before November!”

The Comet's Tail: A Memoir of No Memory, a memoir fromAmy Nawrocki ’96, was published by Little Bound Books Essay Series, through Homebound Publications. The memoir chronicles Nawrocki's journey into and out of an encephalitic coma. She contracted the illness after her first year at Sarah Lawrence but recovered and returned to graduate in 1996.

Rona Carr ’74is offering individual private workshops from May 7 - September 21 at The Goddard Community Center (647 Columbus Avenue, between W. 91st & 92nd Streets). “Working, directly, one-on-one, we will focus on re-imagining yourself, by identifying:

• Work/life issues that have been difficult to navigate,
• Overcoming obstacles along the way to your satisfaction and success
• Work habits that you want to change,
• Attitudes about work that may be handicapping your success, and
• 年代etting meaningful goals to achieve your ambitions

In an informal setting, we will spend 90-minutes each session, addressing what you want to work on, and how to sustain the change you have envisioned for yourself. Emailrona@uritunltd.organd be sure to include your telephone number and email, so we can discuss your opportunity.”View the brochure．

Beatrix Gates MFA ’84has been awarded one of twoAlan Jutzi Non-Traditional Scholar fellowships at The Huntington Libraryin academic year 2018-2019 for "Good Seeing: Poem of the Full Sky," which highlights 20th c. astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who discovered the means for Hubble’s measuring the universe. “Good seeing” defines available dark for viewing the night sky; the history of astronomy; human desire for connectedness across time; and the history of optics. The Huntington established The Alan Jutzi Fellowship for Non-Traditional Scholars in recognition of former chief curator of rare books, Alan Jutzi, and to honor Alan’s long service to the intellectual needs of researchers, regardless of academic pedigree. The Alan Jutzi Fellowship provides up to two months of annual research support and in keeping with Alan’s breadth of interests, applicants are not limited by field or profession, and may include writers, journalists, urban and city planners, architects, collectors, independent scholars, librarians, and others. Gates' time at the Huntington will be focused on Henrietta Swan Leavitt to understand the context for her brilliant achievement within the technology of the day. Writing about Leavitt requires studies in Astronomy, Music, Photography, Deafness, Disability Studies and Women’s History. The long poem, a form of fluid memory, includes experiments in biography in a lyric exploration of Leavitt’s story and of observation itself. There are rewards for “good seeing,” including curiosity and discovery, which speak globally and defy contemporary binary oppositions.

The Dating Profiles, a series fromRachael Heather Solomon ’09, has been picked up by Seeka TV. "Seeka TV is a next-generation curated platform carrying the best independent web series content and is available free to the public." Enstratius founders David Bagley (CEO) and George Reese (VP of Programming) joined with Dell Software CTO Donald Ferguson to build the filmmaker-oriented social viewing platform.

Transfers, written byLucy Thurber ’92, is running at the Lucille Lortel Theater (121 Christopher St.) until May 13. “Cristofer and Clarence are two gifted students from the South Bronx. After two years at a local community college being coached by faculty members, the young men are competing for a life-changing scholarship at an elite northeast university. During a campus visit, the young men are unexpectedly confronted with their shared past while trying to break through a system that seems designed to keep them on the outside.”

Faith Shearin MFA ’93has published her sixth book of poems, Darwin's Daughter, with Stephen F. Austin University Press.

Allison Havey ’88, cofounder of The RAP Project, is featured in200 Women, “a book and exhibition founded on original interviews and accompanying photographic portraits. This landmark project is the realisation of an epic global journey to find two hundred women with diverse backgrounds, and to ask them what really matters to them.”

Lisa Rybovich Crallé ’03presented a public artist talk at Cornell University on March 19, 2018. The talk coincided with the opening of a group exhibition featuring her work entitled “Gross Domestic Product” at Cornell's Olive Tjaden Gallery. The show also features work by Bessie Kunath (LA), Emma Spertus (Oakland), and Richard Zimmerman (NY). For more info:www.lisaRcralle.com．

The Gargoyle Hunters, a novel byJohn Freeman Gill MFA ’95, was released in paperback by Vintage Books, “complete with a spiffy new 1970s cover image shot on a Bronx rooftop forLOOK杂志出版的最后一天s existence (the magazine went belly-up, but the photographer kept shooting).”

年代arah Olmsted Thomas ’08andKaren Hansen MFA ’88have beennominated for Helen Hayes Awardsfor their work with Happenstance Theater in the show,Bon Voyage: A Happenstance Escapade．年代arah was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress and Karen was nominated for Outstanding Musical Direction.

Laurie Nadel ’69has publishedThe Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing ad Strength When Disaster Strikes(HCI Books) based on her work as a journalist, founder of the Committee to Protect Journalists and trauma specialist who directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Legendary newsman Dan Rather wrote the Foreword. He and Laurie will have a joint book signing at Barnes and Noble, Pembroke Pines, FL on April 19, 12 - 1:30 pm. For media/events:www.laurienadel.com．

年代uhasini Yeeda MFA ’15has published a short story"Original Skin"inThe Indian Review.Her short story"Dream State"featured inMadcap Review'sIssue 4,was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize XLI, The Best American Short Stories, and Best of the Net.

Kamilah Aisha Moon '06was recently featured onPoem-A-Daythrough the Academy of American Poets. Her poem was selected by the guest curator for National Poetry Month, U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.

年代usan Wood ’53will celebrate the publication ofWomen: Portraits 1960-2000at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (100 11^thAvenue at 19^th年代treet) on Thursday, April 19 at 6:00 p.m. The compilation includes photographs of “some of the most prominent and influential women of the 20th century,” including Diane von Furstenberg, Martha Stewart, Nora Ephron, Alice Waters, Jayne Mansfield, and Gloria Vanderbilt. RSVP torsvp@pointedleafpress.com．

Lynn Gilbert ’59photographed 46 women for her bookParticular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Time．Twelve of those portraits will be exhibited atThe Photography Showat Throckmorton Fine Art April 5-8. Gilbert toldThe Washington Post, “Change will continue, but these are the women who were the pioneers of this change.”

Lucy Andrews-Cummin '76recently published her first novel,The Hounds of Spring．Cummin is donating $1 of every book sold to the Humane Society of Chittenden County, Vermont.

Janice Moore ’86is the creator and guest curator of the exhibitionIndustrial Maine: Our Other Landscape, hosted by The Atrium Gallery at University of Southern Maine Lewiston- Auburn College (51 Westminster St) and featuring 27 Maine artists. Her paintingBeer Plantis also included in exhibition, which will be on view through June 1.

The Shoreline Review, coedited by年代reshtha Sen MFA ’17, recently released their inaugural issue. The journal publishes South Asian and South Asian diasporic poets, and this issue features ten poets from the US, UK, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kashmir, and interviews with 2017 Ruth Lilly Fellows Fatimah Asghar and Sumita Chakraborty.

卡罗yn Newberger ’63will present her exhibition, In Concert, atGalatea Fine Art(460B Harrison Avenue) in Boston from April 4-29. “For the past several years, my husband Eli and I, both musicians, have been reviewing music and dance performances at the Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow, and Aston Magna festivals. We work forThe Berkshire Edge, a newspaper of ideas, news and culture serving Western Massachusetts. Integrating drawings with music and dance commentary fits naturally into my complex identity as anartist, writer and musician．In this show, the first of its kind, I offer illustrative reviews with their attendant drawings that express my respect for art’s capacity to exalt and inspire.” An opening reception will take place Friday, April 6, at 6 p.m. An artist talk and closing reception will be held on Sunday, April 29, at 2 p.m.

年代now Child, with puppetry direction byEric Wright ’03, is playing at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (1101 6th Street SW) in Washington, DC from April 13 – May 20, 2018. Wright is a co-founders of thePuppet Kitchen, which has designed and built puppets for stage and screen productions around the world since 2008.

年代inger-songwriter年代ophie Auster ’09was featured on the cover of the April 2018 issue ofCosmopolitan España．

Moncho Alvarado MFA ’17is a2018 Poets House Fellow．The Emerging Poets Fellowship at Poets House provides poets an opportunity to receive guidance and instruction from distinguished and diverse faculty, and camaraderie and support from a cohort of engaged emerging voices.

Marian Hyun ’77, Artistic Director for Jazz Choreography Enterprises, shares this upcoming event:The New York Jazz Choreography Projectis a celebration of jazz dance featuring 14 original works by emerging and established choreographers. Audiences of all ages will be treated to dances in a variety of jazz styles from classic to contemporary and the chance to see the richness of this great American art form. Performances: April 28th at 8:00, April 29th at 4:00. A talkback with the choreographers will follow the Sunday, April 29th, performance.

Jed Distler ’78, Artist-in-Residence for WWFM.Org The Classical Network, was named the 2017 recipient of theASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Radio Broadcast/Internet Awardfor his weekly programBetween the Keys, a creative, imaginative and unique journey through the keyboard repertoire.

Pixels and Particulates, an exhibition by年代tephanie Bernheim ’62that embraces and challenges the use of everyday technology in art while wresting with our 21st century obsession with seeing and responding to images, opens Saturday, March 24, at 5 p.m. at Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York.

Illustrated Manuscripts of the Inferno from La Divina Commedia,an exhibit byGeorge Cochrane '95in celebration of the 750^thanniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri will be on view at the Esther Raushenbush Library, main level, Exhibit Area from Monday, March 19^th– Sunday, May 20^th．An artist talk and reception will be held on April 3^rdin the Library Pillow Room at 5:30. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Italian and Literature Departments of Sarah Lawrence College.Click herefor more information on Cochrane’s Inferno project. Working withThornwillow Press, Cochrane uses the illuminated manuscript format while expanding the tradition by intermingling references to Dante-inspired artworks and illustrations by well and lesser-known artists, including comic book artists.

年代amantha Paige Rosen MFA ’17has essays inThe Passed Noteliterary magazine and the anthologyMy Body, My Words: A Collection of Bodies．年代he will be reading on March 14 at MBMW's book launch at KGB Bar (85 E. 4th St, 2nd Fl) and would love to see some friendly faces!

Molly Tolsky MFA ’11was interviewed byTime Out Israel．

Jessica Halem ’94shares, “I am thrilled to announce that I have a new appointment at Harvard Medical School. I am now the LGBT Program Director in the Program for Medical Education. This new appointment allows me to support students as they navigate their identities and career successes, to engage with curriculum, training, research, admissions, and recruitment efforts. I will continue in my current role as LGBT Program Director in the Office for Diversity Inclusion, where I build stronger ties between all members of the Harvard Medical School community and our affiliates.”

Alphabet Publishing is launching its newest course book series, Integrated Skills Through Drama with the publication ofHer Own Worst Enemyby Alice Savage. The series editor isWalton Burns ’99, senior editor of Alphabet Publishing. Each book in the series is a complete curriculum for ESL or ELA classes built around an original one-act play. Students learn communication skills such as pragmatics and pronunciation, do background readings on the theme of the play, and engage in academic and creative writing. And the play itself is fun for students, raising the question of how you chose a major. Aida wants to get a university degree in science. But her performance in a school play has caught the attention of the theatre director at a famous performing arts college. Which passion should she pursue, her love of science or her talent for acting?

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto MFA ’90shares that her new double book of poetry and short memoir prose is out from Guernica Editions.Hard Candy: caregiving, mourning, and stage lightandPitch Roll Yaware upside down in relation to one another; a flip book that meets in the middle with a gallery of Lanzillotto's spiral poetry. Book tour events listed atwww.annielanzillotto.com/events．

Frederica Freyberg ’81, anchor of Wisconsin Public Television’s “Here and Now” program on Friday nights, was profiled inMadisonmagazine.

Joanne Braxton ’72was awarded the the2018 Thomas Jefferson Award, given each year to a member of the William & Mary family for “significant service through his or her personal activities, influence and leadership.”

Adrienne Dawes ’04was interviewed for50 Playwrights Project．

TheNational Opera Associationawarded年代usan Bingham ’66a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Improvement, the most recent novel from Writing faculty memberJoan Silber ’67released in November, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Award in Fiction.

Kathy Westwater MFA ’01was named one of the debut choreographersfor the Stephen Petronio Company’s dance residency center in the Catskill Mountains, in upstate New York, which will open in July.

Rachel Marie Kerschhofer ’08wrote a book of bedtime stories in honor of her legendary grandpa, Mr. Bernard Gross.Everybody Loves Bernie: A book of bedtime stories from a legendary Grandpais a book of bedtime stories. Stories about children like you – wild adventurers, sneaky siblings, grandma’s favorite helper…These kids are strong and smart, dare I say, even kind! They have fun with their friends, and sometimes get into trouble. Like you, they dream of growing up, and doing something in the world, living happy and free, maybe even having some children of their own.

Thomas Brown MFA ’78wasawarded an honorary doctorateby the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, in recognition of outstanding and distinguished contribution to dance.

Working in America initiative, created by Project& and curated byJane M. Saks ’85, is currently installed at theOakland Public Library Main Branch．

Edith + Eddie, directed, edited, and produced byLaura Checkoway ’00, has earned a 2018 Academy Award® Nomination for Best Documentary Short. The film recently won the Best Short at the 2017 IDA Documentary Awards.

Rachel Parsons MFA ’17published an essay, “My Mother’s Secret Ballot” withGuernicamagazine.

Chris Hansen-Nelson MFA ’06published his first book of poems,The Book of Clay, under the pen name C.S. Nelson. Published by Wicked Rufous Press, the book is narrative verse and follows the journey of a simple farmhand from the dust bowl of the Great Depression who is compelled to respond to the suffering of those he sees around him and the journey on which that calling takes him. For more information,visit the publisher’s website．

Maryann Aita MFA ’17published a pop culture commentary piece, “Where’s My Emotional Male Lead?” inThe Collapsar．

Estha Weiner ’72will be teaching “年代tealing from the Poet's Tool Box: A Workshop for Fiction Writers” for the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute on Saturday, February 24, on campus. “Please join us at this one-day intensive, or pass along to people you feel may be interested!”

In a recent episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project” on Oregon Public Radio,Ann Patchett '85retraced the steps that lead to her 2013 essay collection, “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.”

Memories and Desire, an exhibition of work byJudith Steinberg ’62, is on display at the Silvermine Art Center inNew Canaan, Connecticutthrough February 4, 2018. "Bits of flora and fauna began popping out here and there, soon demanding more space and definition. When my world disappeared, a new world came to life in my studio."

Andrea Reese ’84once again made Expertise’s list of thetop 25 wedding photographersserving New York City.

Rachel Feldman ’76compiled the stories of female directors, including herself, who shared their experiences of sexism and discrimination in the industry forThe Wrap．“I wrote a multiaward-winning screenplay to which I was again attached to direct. I found an Oscar-winning female producer and an Oscar-winning actress to star, both outspoken ‘feminists’ — who called me a ‘TV director’ and tried to boot me off my own project to hire a male director.”

Mira Singer MFA ’16published an article analyzing the new Star Wars film entitled “The Last Jediand the Power of Failure” on the blogMythcreants．

Dr. Amanda Foreman ’91presented “Stories from the Royal Collection” this Friday onBBC Radio 4．“I had no idea how many fascinating secrets lie hidden inside Windsor Castle.”

Elizabeth Schwartz ’81announces the roll-out of a new documentary film,American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs, described as “essentially a course in Resistance 101”. A portrait of the co-founder of the American Socialist party, architect of FDR's New Deal, champion of labor rights and income equality and de factor progenitor of Bernie Sanders, the film is narrated by Amy Madigan and directed by Yale Strom. Premiering March 3-8 at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago, followed by a run at NYC's Cinema Village April 27-3 and the Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles and Pasadena May 4-10.

A conference paperJoni Iraci ’13wrote for Bill Shullenberger’s “Slavery in Literature” class, entitled, “Diary of Phillis Wheatley,” has been published in the winter edition ofReview Americana, an online literary journal popular culture magazine. It is the second work published.

Milah Libin ’15was selected byBrooklynmagazine for their annual issue highlighting30 Brooklynites under 30, “who are marching fearlessly into the future, taking the borough with them―wherever they go.” Libin is the editor-in-chief ofDizzymagazine and a music video director.

The TempestnamedMolly Tolsky MFA ’11one of40 women to watch, “the boldest leaders transforming the world through music, art, journalism, business, philanthropy, politics and more.” Tolsky founded the website Alma, which is geared toward young Jew-ish women or, as the site puts it, “Ladies with Chutzpah.”

Cherokee Road Kill, the third collection of poetry fromCelia Bland ’85将发表在2018年2月,西塞罗博士Books. Set in the 1970s in the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, these poems describe the inhabitants of this isolated place, and in a series called “Bird Bone,” a woman killed by her lover. Artist Kyoko Miyabe’s numerous pen and ink drawings correspond with individual poems, presenting detailed and sometimes metaphorized elements from the text. In the book’s introduction, poetry editor Robert Kelly, writes: “These poems do not turn their backs on the places from which they come, and they don’t obsess, either. They move with deftness, forgiving and lamenting and adoring what happens, but quick, quick. I read them admiring the nimble social alertness of the writer, able from all sorts of human actions, interactions, to extract and express the moment —which is momentum— of their keenest meaning.”

Barren Islandby卡罗Zoref’76, MFA ’97won the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction in the 2017National Jewish Book Awards．

Mikhaelle Schiappacasse ’01has been elected as partner of global law firm Dechert LLP.

Happenstance Theater'sBrouHaHais, “a comedic, existential escapade inspired by images of refugees fleeing on foot, Edwardian workers, cinematic treasures like Fellini'sLa Stradaand Bergman'sThe Seventh Seal, and the dark comedy of Samuel Beckett. In this devised, clownesque piece, Happenstance Theater's troupe of eccentrics walks the precipice at the end of the world. Their play lights up the darkness like a firecracker. This show appeals to audiences of any age.” Happenstance Theater includesKaren Hansen MFA ’88and年代arah Olmsted Thomas ’08．Brouhahais running January 4-21, with performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm with an additional performance on Monday, January 15 at 8pm at the Theatre for the New City on the Lower East Side (155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets). This run is also showcasing as part of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP).Ticketsare $15 student/senior and $25 general admission.

Estha Weiner ’72will read atMcNally Jacksonbook store in Soho with Elizabeth J. Coleman and Andrea Fry on Wednesday, January 10 at 7 pm. They will “read poems that explore their own emotional geography, and invite us to travel beyond it.”

Erica Cardwell MFA ’16wrote an essay on racial trauma and self-esteem forThe Believer,“Kara Walker and the Black Imagination．”

迈克尔LeVasseur 04年published a study in theJournal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, entitled “The Effect of PrEP on HIV Incidence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Context of Condom Use, Treatment as Prevention, and Seroadaptive Practices．”

Mirabelle Marden ’00was featured in aVoguepiece written byCarmen Rosy Hall ’16and edited byElla Riley-Adams ’14．Marden has opened a holiday market in Chinatown and is collaborating withJaclyn Hodes ’01of Awaveawake along with curating gift items from local artists.

Newly-elected Nassau County executiveLaura Curran ’89was featured inThe New York Times．

My Mother Was a Freedom FighterbyAja Monet ’09is a finalist for theNAACP Image Awardfor Poetry.

Leslie Rott MFA ’15was a contributor toReal Life Diaries: Living with Rheumatic Diseases, which was published in October 2017.

Underwater New York,数字艺术项目运行byNicole Miller MFA ’09,Nicki Pombier Berger MFA ’09,Nicole Haroutunian MFA ’08, andHelen Georgas MFA ’09, is producingA Held Posture．A Held Postureis a solo performance by multi-disciplinary artist and filmmakerHyung Seok Jeon MFA ’17．The piece explores the image impulse of sinking into the deep ocean. What would you see when you get to the bottom? Through a visual investigation of the abyss, the piece explores the sensation of falling and the experience of generational loss. Formal experiments, including puppetry, a live video feed, and a soundscape created with wireless headphones, guide the audience into the intimate and minimal space within the self. Performances will be held the first weekend in January at Theaterlab (357 W 36th St, New York). Tickets availableonline．

Barbara Goldstein Mathes ’61shares that theBarbara Mathes Galleryis pleased to participate in Art Basel from December 7-10 at Booth C12.

Ilana Masad ’13has joined公关airie Schooner, a literary journal based at the University of Nebraska where Masad is a PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing, as Assistant Nonfiction Editor.

David Grimm ’87andDavid Adjmi ’93were included in a feature of playwrights thriving in the world of television writing by theLos Angeles Times．

Rickey Laurentiis MFA ’11has won the2017 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship for Poetry．The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality.

Michael Hovance '94stars in “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play,” presented by Surf City Theatre Company. Opens Saturday evening (November 18) at 8 pm in the Second Story Theatre (710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach). Additional performances, through Sunday, December 3, are Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 2 and 8, and Sundays at 2. Tickets, $28. Call (424) 241-8040, email surfcitytheatre@gmail.com, or go tosurfcitytheatre.com．

Vrinda Manglik ’08talked withIsis Tatiana Hockenos ’09about an exhibit, "Rhizosphere," she curated last spring at San Francisco's Midway Gallery about the creative legacy of West Marin.

Michelle Koehn MFA ’12isThe Community Table新的执行董事。该组织的使命reducing food insecurity in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Academic publisher Elsevier has appointed NYU Silver Associate ProfessorDarcey Merritt ’88to a two-year term as Associate Editor ofChildren and Youth Services Review (CYSR)effective January 1, 2018. A CYSR reviewer and editorial board member since 2009, in her new position, Dr. Merritt will oversee submissions to the publication in the area of public child welfare, including identifying reviewers and making recommendations based on reviewer evaluations.

年代ahra Motalebi ’99returns to The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) - following her 2015 performance年代ounds From Untitled Skies-withDirectory of Portrayals, an open-form opera based on an ongoing online exchange between the artist and her sister. The show will be performed on Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15 at 8pm. General admission tickets are $20, and member tickets are $15. They can be purchased at www.thekitchen.org, by phone at 212.255.5793 x 11, or in person at The Kitchen, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2-6pm.

Michael Leong MFA '03recently published a new electronic collection of poetry entitledWho Unfolded My Origami Brain?(2017), which is one of the inaugural titles of Fence Digital, a new imprint of Fence Books. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he teaches creative writing and literary study.

Jon Grinspan ’06wrote an op-ed in theNew York Times, “The Right to Vote Is Never Safe．”

Current and upcoming shows featuringJoan Grubin ’67:Color: Primary to Tertiary, curated by Lilly Wei at Site:Brooklyn (165 7th Street, in Brooklyn),November 3-December 3; a new body of work,The Detritus Series, at Garvey Simon Gallery (547 West 27th Street in Chelsea), November 16-December 23; the annualCasheeshshow at the Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, opening December 3, presenting affordable small works; participating in a three-person show at ODETTA in Bushwick, kicking off the new year on January 19, 2018. Stay tuned for more details.

年代am Robbins MFA ’16published a dance review, “The Power of Vignette: 10th Anniversary for the New York Jazz Choreography Project．”

Robyn Ravlich interviewedDiana Jones ’84and alumnaAnn Patchettfor an ABC Australia radio program about former faculty memberLucy Grealy ’85．“My Brilliant Friend” is availableonline．

Poet and filmmakerMichelle Yasmine Valladares MFA ’00is the美国纽约的诗人的诗节Year．The award is for her “lifelong literary achievements and for her poetry that reflects the rich multicultural spirit of The Americas.”

Erin Leigh Schmoyer ’04co-wrote a Shakespearean adaptation ofMean Girls,Meaneth Girls, or The Tragedy of Regina George．It will premiere at the Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St) on Friday, November 3, at 10 pm. Tickets are now available.

Penny Wolfson ’76, MFA ’00has launched an online international literary and arts magazine, calledDark Wood．“Work by three other alumni –Kim Larsen ’80, MFA ’04,Barbara Feinberg ’78, andDan Azulay ’75–also appears there, all beautiful, fresh, and original. Although the magazine is in no way connected to the college, and the first issue includes work by writers from Europe and the U.S.—including the prize-winning British poet George Szirtes, we are hoping that SLC students, alumni, and faculty will contribute.”

Rachel Feldman ’76wrote a guest column inThe Hollywood Reporter, “How to Fix Hollywood's Toxic Gender Exclusion Problem.”

Boston-based attorneyMarjorie Suisman ’70has been listed among the 2017 rankings for Massachusetts and New England Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The results will be published inBostonmagazine and inNew England Super Lawyers．

Eric Glover ’09received the Grand Prize in theWeScreenplay Television Competitionfor his dramatic screenplay “Panthers.”

西维吉尼亚大学出版社出版Marked, Unmarked, Remembered从photojournal,一本新书在美国历史上istAndrew Lichtenstein ’88．

Lynne Golob Gelfman ’66presents new paintings fromthu, a series of paintings that she began in the 1960s in New York City.sometimes randomwill be atMarisa Newman Projects(38 West 32^nd年代t, Suite 1602 New York, NY) October 11 – November 10, 2017. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, October 11 at 6 pm.

Miles Coon MFA ’02invites alumni to apply for a workshop at the 14^thAnnual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, presented in loving memory of Thomas Lux, January 15-20, 2018 in Delray Beach, Florida. Nine rewarding workshops led by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard DeNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Tim Seibles will provide careful critique and/or inspire new work. Special guest, Coleman Barks, will read his renowned translations of Rumi, a poet of the 13^thcentury, proof positive that great poems transcend time and distance; and performance poets Elizabeth Acevedo and G Yamazawa will scintillate with sizzling spoken word! Individual conferences with Lorna Knowles Blake, Sally Bliumis-Dunn and Nickole Brown are available. Apply online by November 10, 2017 atwww.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org．

Janlori Goldman MFA ’09recently published her first full-length poetry book,Bread from a Stranger's Oven,赢得了White Pine Poetry Prize．

年代amantha Stark ’05led theNew York Timesteam thatwon an Emmyfor Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture for the documentaryThe Forger．

Alexi Hawley ’89wrote a guest column forThe Hollywood Reporteron on-set safety.

Barren Islandby卡罗Zoref ’76, MFA ’97has been longlisted for theNational Book Award．Winners will be announced in November.

Wendy Whelan andKathy Westwater MFA '01recentlysharedthe in-process "Sophie," a solo Westwater choreographed over fifteen years ago and never before performed in New York City, and talked about working together for the first time and their dancing friendship since growing up together. Kathy also continues to teach年代hakeWalk classes at the Brooklyn Studios for Dance．

Manal Abu-Shaheen ’03has a solo show,Beirut,at York College Fine Arts Gallery in Jamaica, Queens. The opening reception is Thursday, September 14, 12-2pm. The show will be open through October 13.

Chongren Fan MFA ’13has been appointed Artistic Director of Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America.

Laurie Nadel ’69, author ofThe Five Gifts: Finding Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes(Health Communications, Inc., April 2018) was mentioned onDan Rather's News and Guts Facebook pagefor her essay, "For the Victims of Houston: Top Ten Things Superstorm Sandy Taught Us." The Top Ten List was the idea of classmateBernice Green ’69who published it inOur Time Press, a Brooklyn weekly newspaper that she and her husband publish.

年代uhasini Yeeda MFA ’15recently had a short story, “Dream State,” appear inMadcap Review．这个故事已经被提名为Pushcart Prize XLI, The Best American Short Stories, and Best of the Net.

Bethany Ball MFA ’13has made the short list for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for her debut novelWhat to Do About the Solomons．The winner will be announced at The Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner held on December 5.

Freddy, Newark, New Jerseyfrom the seriesNothing Gold Can StaybyNicholas Pollack ’10is now part of the collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University where it will be on view in the upcoming exhibition年代ubjective Objective: A Century of Social Photographyalongside photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Weegee, among others. The exhibit runs through January 7, 2018.

In July 2016,Amanda Bankert ’03and her husband Louis Scott openedBoneshaker Doughnutsin the second arrondissement of Paris (77 Rue D'Aboukir). The bakery serves traditional American raised doughnuts made from scratch with seasonal ingredients.

Jaclyn Vorenkamp MFA ’15has a story inPost Road Magazine #32．

“We make our own games,” aPaper Dances production andshow choreographed by年代am Robbins MFA ’16, will be performed at Dixon Place (161 Chrystie St) on Tuesday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. “As children, our freedom and creativity, sense of play, storytelling ability, and constructive tendencies inspired our parents and teachers to believe in our ability to do and be more. As grown-ups we’ve lost the ability to play, and live in a world full of anger, hostility, war, and violence. This performance revisits a time when the world was full of innocence, happiness, wonder and, most importantly, play.” Robbins will be performing with年代tephanie Coleman ’07andEmily Goucher ’04．Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door, $12 for students, seniors, and those with an NYC ID.

Millennial Ethics Productions, founded by年代am Reetz ’12, will make its formal company debut at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP (30 John St) on Wednesday, August 9, at 6:30 p.m.

Julia Barry ’04邀请校友一个晚上的音乐跨越theater, art song, and opera by New York City writers (including herself). “Tickets support our wonderful working performers, and also Cornelia Street Cafe, one of the few listening rooms left in NYC that's struggling to stay afloat. Music, friends, food & drink...all good things. See you August 8 at 8:30 p.m.!” Details for the event can be found onFacebook．

年代usan Haskins-Doloff ’71, Executive Producer and co-host of "Theater Talk,"accepted the 2015-16 NYC Emmy Awardfor "Best Interview/Discussion Program" on May 6, 2017. The series, now in its 20th year on PBS, won in a field of 8 nominees for its retrospective episode, "Talk to Remember," which featured interviews with guests including Danielle Brookes, Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, Ivo van Hove, George Takei and critic Ben Brantley ofThe New York Times．

With her company, My Photo Preservation,Alice O'Keefe ’15provides in-home photo preservation and restoration services to her Brooklyn clients, with searchable drives that make finding photos easy. O’Keefe says the easiest way to reach her is via email,awokeefe@gmail.com, or through the contact page on herwebsite．

Ellen Winter ’14,年代am Monaco ’11, andA. Sarr ’13, members of NYC indie group Chamber Band, all recently collaborated on the musical theatre podcast “36 Questions,” which can be streamed for free on iTunes, and is the first of its kind. It also features violin fromLily Desmond ’16and many other talented writers and musicians. The podcast was recently featured inThe New York Times．

年代arah Gottlieb ’09will be hosting a workshop developed in collaboration with Catalina Mahecha in Madrid, Timing in Contact Improvisation, in Chicago at Jam Links Hall on July 22. “Our research focuses on 1) Bio-rhythms, or rhythms and time signatures produced by anatomic functions 2) Membranes, kinespheres or auric spaces that separate and conjoin 3) Gravity, which we track by studying cycles of suspension, dynamic falling, undercurrents and over-currents, and spatial trajectories. The work incorporates various forms of energetic and somatic practice into Contact Improvisation.” Information and Registration:年代arahgcircle@gmail.com

劳伦Palmor 08年is a contributor to the catalogue"Revelations: Art From The African American South,"published on the occasion of the exhibition at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The exhibition and catalogue celebrate the Fine Arts Museums’ major acquisition from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta of sixty-two paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by twenty-two acclaimed contemporary artists, including Thornton Dial, Ralph Griffin, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Jessie T. Pettway, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver, Annie Mae Young, and Purvis Young. The catalogue, co-published with DelMonico Books / Prestel, is filled with compelling content and gorgeous color plates.

Ryan Strong MFA ’14is now a publicist at Penguin Random House.

"American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs", co-written and executive produced byElizabeth Schwartz ’81has just been acquired by First Run Features for North American theatrical and non-theatrical distribution. Directed and co-written by Yale Strom (Schwartz's partner in BlackStream Films) and narrated by Amy Madigan, this feature-length documentary explores the life and legacy of the co-founder of the American Socialist movement (and not coincidentally, hero and inspiration to Bernie Sanders) in the context of American populism and social and economic injustice 100 years ago and today.

"Distractions,"a short story byJoni Iraci ’13, was published inReview Americana．

Bronwen Mullin ’06has beenappointedby the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as its rabbinic artist in residence. She will create a performing arts wing for the Artists’ Beit Midrash.

年代arabande Booksis pleased to announce Rowan Ricardo Phillips has selectedMothers Over NangarharbyPamela Hart MFA ’04as the winner of the 2017 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

Heather Wedvick Mathews ’95and her filmmaking partner, Tiffany Rhynard, made a documentary about rising seniorMoisés Serrano ’18．Beginning before he even dreamed of going to Sarah Lawrence, the film ends on campus, at the start of his first year.Forbidden: Undocumented & Queer in Rural Americawill premiere on Logo TV on August 3rd. It also won the first ever Social Justice Award from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Freedom Award at OutFest 2016, where it premiered last summer.

莫莉10贝斯校长”, along with poets M.D. Myers and J. Bailey Hutchinson, founded and co-curates the nonprofit poetry seriesOpen Mouth Reading Seriesin Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Green Mountain Fine Art Gallerypresents “Summertime,” an exhibit of new landscape paintings by Burlington-based artistBonnie Acker ’70．The show opens on Saturday, June 24, with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery at 64 S. Main St., Stowe.

Waypoints Magazinerecently published “Slate,” a short story byNatasha Yglesias ’14．

Under the Volcano, a modular program of writing master classes in Tepoztlán, Mexico directed byMagda Bogin ’73, is now officially a not-for-profit organization. Visit theirwebsiteto learn more about their upcoming program in January 2018, their 15^thyear.

Nicole Dennis-Benn MFA ’12won aLambda Literary Awardfor Lesbian Fiction for her novel,Here Comes the Sun．

Theresa Sullivan MFA ’17interviewed Writing faculty member and Brooklyn Poet Laureate forGarrison Institute．

"Address," a poem byElizabeth Sochko MFA ’17, was published online inInterrupture．

Lindsy Van Gelder ’66shares: “Many classmates and other 60s era Sadie Lou-ers may appreciate a memoir on birth control back in the day that I recently wrote forAllure．”

Allan Mann MFA ’70is looking for help, “putting together stage production, book, video recording, documentary and possible feature ofEarthlight, my 1969-72 New Age stage revue company, the one that saved the Woodstock Festival.”

AmpLit Fest, a NYC literary festival co-produced by凯蒂Longofono MFA的14, is taking place Saturday, June 10 on Riverside Park. It is a free, daylong festival that brings authors of all backgrounds, styles, and levels of recognition to center stage. With readings, workshops, panels, and a community market, AmpLit Fest makes one of life’s most solitary acts — writing — a public celebration.

年代weet Parents, a feature film co-written and co-starringLeah Rudick '06will premiere at theBrooklyn Film Festivalthis June followed by a run at the Lower East Side Film Festival.

年代acha Yanow ’99wrote and performedDad Bandat Joe's Pub in June. “An intimate psychological portrait of the artist’s father, her internalized dad, and patriarchy in general, ‘Dad’ covers and lip synchs to his favorite songs from the 50s and 60s, shares footage of his 1970s winning appearance on the To Tell the Truth game show, presents motivational speeches, and more. His button-down shirts become his costumes, his yellow notepad—usually reserved for stock market details—contains his set list, and his Agatha Christie novel collection andWall Street Journalbecome his props. Over the course of the evening, we get to know Dad as he dances, sings, screams, and lectures.”

Eli Rosenblatt ’06has earned his PhD in Jewish Studies from University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation was titled, "Enlightening the Skin: Travel, Race, and Rabbinic Intertextuality in Yiddish Literature, 1860-1960."

Chelsea Catalanotto ’12has joined the staff of the CW showiZombieas a writer.

Built to Fail, a streetwear documentary co-produced byMatti Leshem '83, will premiere at theLos Angeles Film Festivalthis summer.

Pamela Hart MFA ’04has been named the inaugural winner of theBrian Turner Literary Arts Prizefor poetry. Poems from her manuscript,Over Nangarhar, will be published in the upcoming issue of the年代ierra Nevada Review．

年代alvage Vanguard Theater (SVT), an Austin, Texas-based theater company, will be in New York City May 22-25, 2017 for a “Next Stage” residency with the Drama League Theater Center (32 Avenue of the Americas). Director Jenny Larson will be developing performance pieceCastawritten byAdrienne Dawes ’14in collaboration with composer Graham Reynolds and visual artist Beth Consetta Rubel.Castais inspired by a unique genre of portraiture that grew in popularity over the 18th century in Nueva España (Mexico). Casta paintings depicted various different racial mixtures in the New World, arranged in a specific hierarchy of race and status, as defined by Spanish elites. The complexities of contemporary racial and ethnic identity(ies) are echoed in this distant mirror of casta paintings. How do Old World anxieties about ambiguous identities reflect contemporary biases? How can the interaction between performance and visual art, specifically portraiture, open a window for a unique audience experience about racial identity? Reservations availableonline．

Anita Silvers ’62was featured inDiverse: Issues In Higher Educationfor her work as an advocate for students and others with disabilities.

Bernice Green ’69quoted classmateLaurie Nadel ’69in the April 13^thissue ofOur Time Press．Nadel said, “Artists are our canaries in the coal mine. The president’s decision to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities should remind us that dictators are threatened by artists and writers. It is an ominous sign. After the military seized power in Chile after President Salvador Allende’s assassination in 1973, soldiers raided artists’ homes and burned ‘Cubism’ because they thought it referred to Castro’s Cuba and ‘Revolution in the Arts.’ In the present climate, art challenges us to face our fears and get stronger.” Green and Nadel came to Sarah Lawrence from Brooklyn's Midwood High School where they met in 1963.

Dylan Brody ’85shares, “This July my theatrical solo showDylan Brody’s Driving Hollywood, based on my award-winning special of the same name comes to the People’s Improv Theater (PIT) in New York for a weirdly intermittent three-week run. I would love to have you come see what I’m doing in this show. It’s about the friction between art and commerce, the need for critical thinking, and the whole thing feels more salient and needed under the Trump administration than it did when I wrote it.” VisitBrody’s websitefor more information.

The Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue) presentsGIOVANNI THE FEARLESS, a commedia dell’arte folk opera for young and old audiences with music byMira J Spektor ’50from May 12-21. More information and ticketsonline．

Inspired by the poetry of M. Nourbese Philip and Ntozake Shange,Vanesa Evers ’13re-invisioned the intended audience (and victims) of the Declaration of Independence by dissecting every word in the historical document and turned it into a play. Come and reimagine this historical document with Evers at Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts (4522 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia) on Saturday, July 8 at 6 p.m. Ticketsonline．

Part IV ofWRENCH, a play byElana Greenfield ’82, will be presented at LABAlive OTHER: THREE. Inspired by ancient Jewish text, Greenfield is among the last Fellows will presenting their new work in an evening of art, drinks, and celebration at The 14th Street Y Theater (344 East 14th St) on Thursday, May 11 at 7:30 p. m.

Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf, a new play byKate Scelsa '02, was read by Obie-winning theater company Elevator Repair Service (ERS) at Little City Books. In this queer, irreverent parody of Edward Albee’s iconic "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf," no one is left unscathed by Martha's feminist ambitions. Rubbing alcohol will be consumed, imaginary pregnancies will be indulged, and gender constructs will be destroyed.

寒冷的纽约@马贸易协会Cave Theatre Co. will present the World Premiere ofDivorce Party, written byLauren Wimmer ’13and directed by James Masciovecchio, April 21-May 7 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) with performances Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($20) may bepurchased in advance．

Marian Goldstein Fontana ’89will be honored 15th anniversary benefit for the New York Writers Coalition (NYWC) this May.

Lois Farfel Stark ’65gave a TedEx presentation at SMU in December of 2016 on年代hape: Hiding in Plain Sight．

Boni Alvarez '96was featured inThe Inquirerfor the success of his playBloodletting．Alvarez "has been adding Filipino American stories to the fabric of the US stage."

The Honolulu Museum of Art will feature a series of photographs by Maui artistChristopher Cole ’06as part of its Contemporary Hawai’i Artist program in the John Dominis and Patches Damon Holt Gallery. “The Global South” exhibit runs through July 9. Read more in theMaui News．

Josh Gannon ’03will be running this year’s Boston Marathon for年代t. Francis House, a day shelter in downtown Boston. Gannon placed second in the cross country championship his first year at Sarah Lawrence College. “Marathon Monday is a very special day in Massachusetts and to be able to be a part of that while supporting St. Francis House is a really big deal for me.”

Performances ofAnywhereandExtemporaneous, choreographed byKathy Westwater MFA ’01, will be held April 19, 20, 21, and 22 at Brooklyn Studios for Dance (210 Lafayette Avenue).Tickets available online．

Marian Hyun ’77is an artistic director of the New York Jazz Choreography Project, a celebration of jazz dance featuring 14 original works by emerging and established choreographers. On April 29^thand 30^th在萨尔瓦多Capezio剧院Peridance 126 e . 13th Street, audiences of all ages will be treated to dances in a variety of jazz styles from swing to contemporary and the chance to see the richness of this great American art form. Featured choreographers include Antuan Byers, Ashley Carter, Sharlane Conner, Rachel Leigh Dolan, Kavin T. Grant, Billy Griffin, Karin Kawamoto, Ali Koinoglou, Gregory Kollarus, Cat Manturuk, Vanessa Martínez de Baños, Bryan Menjivar, Sue Samuels, Jaime Shannon, Ashley Stafford, and Kyle Weiler.Tickets available online．

Kyle Chu ’10aka Panda Dulce was part of San Francisco Public Library’s "Drag Queen Story Hour" at the Harvey Milk branch, in aFUSION viral video．

Reynolds Tenasas-Norman '78has been named a Paducah Arts Alliance (PAA) Artist In Residence in Kentucky. Tenasas-Norman began her two-week residency on February 12 at Pinecone Art Studio & Gallery (421 N 7th Street). An exhibit of a selection of her small drawings inspired byThe Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850s historic work of fiction, will be on display at StudioMars (418 N 7th Street) Friday, February 24, from 5-7 p.m. Tenasas-Norman’s drawings will be presented as a mosaic-style exhibit that showcases the diversity of women who choose their own destiny.

年代uhasini Yeeda MFA ’15recently had a short story, “Dream State,” appear inMadcap Review．这个故事已经被提名为Pushcart Prize XLI.

年代lothrust, a band composed ofLeahWellbaum '11(guitar/vocals),Kyle Bann '10(bass), andWill Gorin '11(drums),announcednew tour datesfor theirmost recent album,Everyone Else．

Donna Gigliotti '76spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterabout how she started her career after Sarah Lawrence, her work with producer Harvey Weinstein, and her upcoming project.

Emma Bolden ’02has been awarded a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Erica Abeel ’58will be at Cornelia Street Café (29 Cornelia Street, New York) January 26 reading and talking about her new novelWild Girlsabout 3 women rebels of the 50s who live against the grain. One theme explored will be: Can you truly live outside of your time? A second theme: female self-invention in a conformist age.

Kat Long ’97is working on a biography of her ancestor William Scoresby, a 19th century Arctic explorer and whaling ship captain who is considered the first polar scientist. Kat has launched a crowdfunding campaign onIndiegogo.comto raise money for a book research trip to England. While there, she plans to investigate his personal letters and scientific discoveries, which are helping today's scientists understand climate change.

Tess Leopold ’82shares, “Peter and I have moved to Connecticut. I am working in property & casualty insurance at Beazley. We are renovating a 1962 house on a lake and enjoying the Hartford area. We expect to be playing in the snow soon.”

In response to the election,Judy Klass ’88recorded an album,公关otest Songs in an Age of Trump．“Because the recount is ongoing, I did not do a full band recording, and have not (at this time) pressed a CD.” The entire album is posted onYouTube．

Lady Of The Castle, a chamber opera with music and lyrics byMira J Spektor ’50, based on a true story & an Israeli Play by Lea Goldberg, is at Theater for the New City (155 1st Ave, New York, between 9th & 10th Street) November 30 through December 11, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm - Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are $18, contactmirajspektor@earthlink.netfor more information.

Ellen Kaye ’82will perform songs from her albumIce Wine: Songs for Christmas and Dark Winter Nightsat The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22^nd年代t, New York) on Tuesday, December 13 at 7 pm. The performance is a part of Cabaret Productions' "New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits" series. Make reservationsonlineor call 212.206.0440.

Noguchi Breton(8375 NE 2nd Ave, Miami) proudly presents “sometimes random,” an exhibition of new paintings byLynne Golob Gelfman ’662016年11月18日—2017年1月14日。在一些paintings, the clarity of the grid becomes muted by an all over color field. In others, the triangular patterns are fractured and almost disappear. In all the paintings, the structure of the support quietly emerges, and the patterning may evoke associations with the handwoven textiles of Africa, South America and Japan. A vernissage will take place on Friday, November 18 from 6-10 p.m.

Kyes Stevens MA ’99has been recognized as one of 2016'sWomen Who Shape the State, for changing neighborhoods, cities and Alabama for the better. Stevens is a poet and founder and director of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project at Auburn University.

The first book of poetry byClaudia Cortese MFA ’09,Wasp Queen, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in December 2016.

Kathy Westwater MFA ’01has begun a yearlong residency atBrooklyn Studios for Dancethat includes leading four SHAKE/WALK workshops 31-Oct thru 20-Nov, curating a performance and installation, hosting a reading group, open rehearsal, and panel discussion, and presenting the New York premiere ofAnywherein the spring of 2017. Abenefit performanceforAnywhereand Brooklyn Studios for Dance with invited artists will take place Saturday, November 5.

Nima Etemadi ’04andLily Fischer ’04will openCake Life Bake Shop在其Saturd Fishtown位置在费城ay, November 5. The new shop will sell a full menu of savory and sweet pastries, including cookies, scones, pies, muffins, cakes by-the-slice, whole cakes to-go.

Matthew Holloway ’01will return to The Duplex (61 Christopher Street @ 7th Ave, New York) on November 5th, 2016 at 9:30 p.m. to presentMother Always Said!, a cabaret performance featuring Josh Kight on piano. Tickets may be purchased atmatthewhollowaysings.comor attheduplex.com．$10 online and $15 at the door with a two drink minimum; 21+ only.

Claire Jeanine Satin ’56presentsConcrete, a documentary that “traces the mission and devotion of Ruth and Marvin Sackner’s exceptional archive of visual and concrete poetry created by Sara Sackner,” at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301) on Thursday, November 3 at 7 p.m. Bookworks by Claire will also be on display as part of the event.

Rachelle Cruz ’07won the2016 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize, judged by rob mclennan and Megan Gravendyk Estrella. Her first full-length collection of poetry,去d's Will for Monsters, will be published by Inlandia Institute in Spring 2017.

John Kelly MFA ’94was named Executive Director of The ToonSeum, Pittsburgh's museum of comics and cartoon art. “The ToonSeum is one of only two museums in the US to be dedicated to the art and history of comic and cartoon art. I am very excited by this opportunity and hope to grow the presence of the museum, which is currently celebrating its 10^thyear of existence. Prior to this job, I had served as Senior Director of Communications at the National Basketball Association and Director of Communications at Columbia University. I am still writing forThe Comics Journaland other places and am currently finishing up a book on the history of the comics of the Alternative Weekly Newspapers, which will be published by Fantagraphics Books in a year or so.”

Marian Rich ’79recently returned from a clowning and caring trip to Costa Rica with Dr. Patch Adams. “As a longtime teacher and performer of improvisational comedy, I use improv and performance to train and coach people, helping them grow and develop their life performances. Spending time with Patch Adams has given me a way to provide attentive care to people who are suffering. I will be bringing this approach to the Lillian Booth Actors Home (run by the Actors Fund) on October 15th when I will be "clowning around' with their residents, which includes my father, Allan Rich.”

年代ecret Saturdays: Performance Seriesis a once-a-month evening of new work with a rotating theme, curated by Theatre alumni,Vinny Mraz MFA ’15andJosh Rice MFA ’14．Featuring short pieces of theatre, comedy, and new devised work,年代年代:PSgives new and emerging artists a chance to showcase their work, on its feet, in front of an audience. Featuring: Clara Elser MFA ’14! Jesse Heffler MFA ’13! Carolina Ordonez MFA '15! Patrick Vermillion ’15! Keisha Zollar (SLC Lampoon Instructor)! Andrew Kimler! Among others! Tickets are $10 at the door. The Secret Theatre is in Long Island City, Queens, only 3 stops into Queens off the 7 train from Grand Central. October 22, November 19, December 17 at 10 pm.

Elissaveta Iordanova MFA ’00, MS ’15, Artistic Director and choreographer of GORANA DANCE -Bulgarian folk dance collective, announcestickets are now availablefor “Rhythms & Patterns”, a gala concert to commemorate the company’s 10thanniversary, at JCC Manhattan on April 2 at 7 p.m.

ArtWorks for Freedomfounder and artistic directorKay Chernush ’66joined partnering artists to help raise awareness about human trafficking at theKala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai．Chernush was also recognized at the Anne Frank Awards and the McCain Institute Human Trafficking Symposium for her compelling photographs as part of "Bought & Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking".

Alysson Light '07recently accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. “I'll be starting in the Fall, and looking forward to connecting with other alumni in Philly!”

The Earle Ernst Lab Theatre recently held a retrospective celebration of the Aloha Legacy of Dance ofJean Erdman '38．Dancers, musicians, friends, and other professional associates gathered to celebrate her distinguished career on her 100th birthday.

Janet Dephoure '60Just began a new job as a senior technical writer at Digital Guardian, a computer security company in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Annie Lanzillotto MFA '90invites alumni to attend the launch of her audiobook "L is for Lion" Saturday, February 13 from 6 to 9 pm at CityLore (59 East 1^st年代t, New York). “Beads, masks, libations, antics…Mardi Gras and San Valentino energies abound. Have a listen: http://tiny.cc/kikk8x

Erica NewHouse '03will be teaching a new six-week acting workshop in New York City beginning Sunday, February 7 from 4 to 6 pm at Larry Singer Studios (118-122 Baxter St, Suite 403). To sign up or to get more information, call 917.327.5406.

Jay Strong '78invites alumni to join the next SLC Playwrights Workshop on Sunday, January 10 at 6 p.m. If you'd like to be a part of this exciting opportunity to read, present, and develop new works by up and coming playwrights, please contactslcnymetro@yahoo.comto join their mailing list.

Leah Umansky MFA '04will have a new dystopian/sci-fi poetry chapbook out in Spring 2016 with Kattywompus Press called Straight Away the Emptied World．

Virginia Pye MFA '87published her second novel,Dreams of the Red Phoenix, in October. The novel is set in the summer of 1937 in North China, taking her grandmother's life as inspiration.

Jay Strong '78announced that November 8 is the NEXT SLC Playwriting Workshop. Attention Playwrights and Screenwriters: Need a fresh perspective? Have all or part of your current work in progress read by professional actors, then supportively discussed in a relaxed atmosphere at the SLC Playwriting Workshop. SLCPW is a FREE informal writing development group, we meet second Sunday of every month at 6pm. Our next meeting is Sunday, November 8. If you'd like to participate, contact年代LCNYMetro@yahoo.com

Margo Stever MFA '88announced the publication of the book,Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S.Diplomatic Mission to Asia, that she co-authored with her son, James Taft Stever. The book was first published by Zhejiang University Press in 2012 and then through a collaboration of the University of Cincinnati and Zhejiang University Press in 2015.Looking Eastdocuments a historic trip led by William Howard Taft during his tenure as secretary of war during Theodore Roosevelt's administration.

Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot, byRobert Danberg '96,was published by Sense Publishers in June 2015. A work of creative nonfiction bends genres such as the lyric essay, instructional manuals, midrash and self-help. It invites readers to meditate on their own lives as learners and teachers, alongside their reading to create a commentary of their own on the essential uncertainty of teaching what must be learned from experience.

Audrey Heimler MS '71shared with us that in 1991, she wrote an article about an unidentified genetic syndrome, that has since been known as Heimler syndrome. Recently a geneticist identified the gene for Heimler syndrome. He was successful and this report was published in theAmerican Journal of Human Genetics-- so now there is a Heimler syndrome and a gene for Heimler syndrome!

Kate Scelsa '02will be promoting the publication of her novel的粉丝们不可能生活with a reading and conversation with fellow YA author Nicola Yoon at the Los Angeles Central Library (630 W. 5th St) on Sunday, September 20 at 3pm.

Nancy Donehower '79announced the publication of her book, College Admissions Without the Crazy (Senza Pazzia Press, 2014). The book draws on Nancy's background as a psychologist and thirty years of experience helping students navigate the college admissions process. It helps students understand why they get stuck as they search for, apply to, and ultimately choose a college to attend.

Meredith Monk '64will be among the recipients of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal today for her "contributions as a composer, singer, and performer. Renowned for her groundbreaking vocal techniques, Ms. Monk has reimagined the instrument of voice with her innovative work." Seewhitehouse.govfor more information.

Alexandra Davin '98will be offering a therapeutic drama group for support and personal growth through creative play, this September on Friday mornings. Using theater, movement, music, and art as tools, the class will build a supportive environment to explore uncertainy and to promote positive change. Sessions are 90 minutes long weekly and run for eight weeks. The location is in midtown Manhattan and the cost is $350. For more information, please emailalexandra.devin@gmail.com．

Robert Ivey MFA '08announced that his chapbook,Letters to My Daughter, is being published by Blue Lyra Review on February 15, 2016. It will be featured in Vol. 1 of the Delphi Series of books.Blue Lyra Reviewwill sell the book on kindle and in print and at Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The book will contain three chapbooks by three authors: Robert Ivey, Anna Leahy, and Karen George.

The Ascent of Woman is a landmark four-part documentary series for BBC Two written and presented byAmanda Foreman ‘91that charts the role of women in society over the course of 10,000 years. Amanda argues that the history of women isn't a straight line from Eve's apple to Margaret Sanger's Pill. Over the past ten thousand years it has veered wildly between extremes of freedom and oppression, inclusion and exclusion. The Ascent of Woman starts 2nd September on BBC Two at 9pm.

卡罗Zoref '76, MFA '97has won the 2015 AWP Award Series for the Novel forBarren Island(New Issues Press). Judge Paul Harding said: "Barren Island is a wonderful synthesis of character and history… the author immerses us in a world most readers would never otherwise have known existed.”

Jeffrey McDaniel '90will be reading at The Ugly Mug Cafe in Orange on Wednesday, August 26th at 8 pm, $3 cover.

After serving as a member of the editorial board for five years,Melissa Crowe MFA '99has been named co-editor, with Rachel Contreni Flynn, ofBeloit Poetry Journal．

Michael Leong MFA '03received a 2016 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate, with Ignacio Infante, the avant-garde Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro.

Rhona Free '78, became president of the University of Saint Joseph on July 1, 2015.

Chelsea Catalanotto '12was recently awarded an official selection for her film "Someone Else" which was selected out of 1000+ global entrants, to screen at the prestigious Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival, an indie event held annually in Hollywood.