News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Alumni
MFA alumni and students selected as community performers in upcoming dance performance at Meany Hall
Members of the UW Bothell MFA community are excited to take part as community performers in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's What Problem?, forthcoming at Meany Hall March 24-26. Alum Emma Carson (MFA '16 ) and current first-year students Alexandria Simmons and Raelynne Woo will work with the company during spring break, culminating in ...
March 15, 2022
Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow Receives Beulah Rose Poetry Prize
Last week venerable literary journal Smartish Pace named IAS alum Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) the winner of its 19th annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Her poem "the what inside the thing made kin" will appear in the Summer 2022 issue of the journal alongside the other winners and finalists. ...
February 24, 2022
Talena Lachelle Queen’s Poem Featured in New Jersey Black History Curriculum
IAS alum Talena Lachelle Queen (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) has been busy at work with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to support the design and implementation of representative curricula throughout the state. ...
February 23, 2022
Kyra Laughlin helps launch medical advocacy services for sexual assault survivors
IAS alum, Kyra Laughlin (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, 2018, Master of Arts in Policy Studies 2019), has successfully partnered with the community-based organization Rebuilding Hope to implement King County’s only in-person medical advocacy program for sexual assault victim-survivors. ...
February 23, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Bee Elliot featured in Taking the Heat
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and alum Bee Elliot are featured in a new book called Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. In the book’s opening chapter, author Bonnie Schneider profiles Atkinson’s class on Climate Anxiety and Hope ...
February 15, 2022
Megan Dunn: Passion meets policy
“All of the change I pushed for in the environmental world was tied to policy, so I needed that background to carry out the change I advocated for,” says Master of Arts in Policy Studies alum Megan Dunn.
February 14, 2022
MFA Alum Woogee Bae interviews Dao Strom for Full Stop
The latest issue of Full Stop, a journal of reviews and interviews, includes a lengthy interview between Woogee Bae (MFA, 2019) and author, artist, and musician Dao Strom. Strom previously visited the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics as ...
February 11, 2022
Troy Landrum Jr. – Recipe for a haircut
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.
January 31, 2022
MFA Alumni Aya Bram and Allison Morton Collaborate on Artist Website
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 ...
January 26, 2022
Bee Guzman-Elliott’s film “BROKEN PROMISES” awarded grand prize
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 ...
January 18, 2022