January 2022

In an opinion piece for the South Seattle Emerald, IAS alum Troy Landrum Jr. (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics) writes in detail about this precious bonding experience between a father and son. The time-honored tradition is one he shared with his father and a ritual he continues to this day.

Aya Bram (MFA '19) and Allison Morton (MFA '17) were friends long before they started their MFAs in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell. The two met at Ringling College, where they studied the arts and collaborated on films and other projects. After graduation, Morton moved back to Washington to be near family and begin her MFA. The experience was such a positive one ...

IAS alum Bee Guzman-Elliott's experimental film, “BROKEN PROMISES,” was awarded Grand Prize Winner in The Artist Forum 2021 Spoken Word Competition; the politics of emotion. "BROKEN PROMISES is a performance art/spoken word short that expresses Guzman-Elliott's grief and love as a young person living through the 6th mass extinction in the age of the Anthropocene. The film is ...

IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s 1994 novel, The Gifts of The Body, has been adapted for theater and performed at the Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Sapporo, Japan.  Brown's novel tells the story of a home-care aid who helps people living with AIDS, and ...

IAS faculty member Martha Groom and colleagues published a review of capacity development efforts to enhance biodiversity conservation.  Part of a special issue on capacity development - training and supports to conservation practitioners - Groom and colleagues poured through a database of capacity development reports to ...