MFA 2007
http://www.neil-aitken.com/

Publications

• The Lost Country of Sight, poetry collection, Anhinga Press 2008
• "enumeration," poem, Ninth Letter Journal 2008
• "comment" poem, ReDactions (issue 8/9)
• "Letter Fifty," poem DMQ Review, Spring/Summer 2007
• Five poems in Completely Mixed Up:  An Asian North American Mixed Race Anthology 2007

Awards/Honors

• The Lost Country of Sight, poetry, Anhinga Press 2008, selected as the winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
• Two Pushcart nominations for poetry, 2007

MFA 2008

Publications

• "Linseed Oils Loosen and Spin", Caesura, The City University of New York, Staten Island literary journal
• "If I Was Gonna..." poem, Cipactli, the Raza Studies Journal 2008

Interviews/Performances

•  Moe Green Poetry Hour, Guest Poet, www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/ Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2009
•  Heron Studios Gallery Opening, Featured Poet, Aston, PA  November 14, 2008         
• University of California Davis, Chicano Popular Culture Course,  May 15,2008
• Hip Hop Califest, UCR, Riverside, CA  April 30, 2008
• San Bernardino Sun, San Bernardino, CA  April 29, 2008
• Colorado State University Latina Empowerment Speaker Series, April 17, 2008
• UCR Chancellor's Office Arts Day, UCR ARTS Building, Riverside, CA  November 2007
• Cinco De Mayo Festival, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA  May 3, 2007

Awards/Honors

• Second runner-up, poetry, "Is it Time Yet?", Hayden's Ferry Review Holiday Blog Contest; North Country Institute for Writers of Color, Tuition Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY  July 11-13 2008
• University of California, Riverside, Gluck Fellowship Summer 2007
• University of California, Riverside, Tomás Rivera Fellowship 2006
• Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, Honorable Mention for "Revolutionary Women Are More Beautiful," San  Francisco, CA  2006

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Publications

• "Roommates" & "Sever" Chaffey Review, vol. II, May 2009
• "Inside Out", Chaffey Review, vol. I, January 2009
• "Tingle" Semana de Mujer Journal, 2009
• "When There was Here" Pacific Review, vol. 26, 2008
• "Inside Out" & "In One Act" Metamorphoses Anthology, Spring 2008
• "For Softer Skin" The Pacific Review vol. 25, 2007   
• "Easter, 1990" Separation Anthology, Spring, 2007

MFA 2010 (in progress)
bonnieandclyd@hotmail.com

Publications

• Poetry in The Cortland Review, Rattle, Pearl, The Apple Valley Review, Poetic iversity                  

Awards/Honors

• Donald Drury Award for both fiction and poetry
• Finalist for The Rita Dove Poetry Prize

MFA 2008

Productions

• Glass Eye, short story in Crate, Spring 2006
• Left Luggage, Production Finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Cedar City, Utah, 2007

Awards/Honors

• Gluck Fellowship for the Arts, Winter & Summer 2007

MFA 2004
http://www.sherrybrandon.com

Publications 

• "The Cream-Colored Nightmare," Mosaic, 2002
• "Sightless Light," Rhapsoidia, Issue 1, 2002
• "Run Watcha Brung," Atomic Sandbox, comic book, 2005
• "Roof Kitty," Atomic Sandbox, comic book, 2006
• "SuperZeroes," (with Brian Compton), Atomic Sandbox, graphic novel, 2007

Productions 

• "Just What the Doctor Ordered."  Playworks, UCR, 2001
• "Go To Hell, Calvin Klein."  Playworks, UCR, 2002
• "I Am Jimmy."  Playworks, 2004
• "Lunchy Libre:  A Sandwich Worth Fighting For," short film, 2006
• "My 20s Took A Holiday and I Wasn't Invited," short documentary, 2007
• "I Have a Korean Mother!" short film, 2007
• "12.24.50"  documentary, 2009

Interviews

• "Acting on Issues:  As playwrights, UCR students find their voices and express their concerns on stage."  The Press-Enterprise, 08/18/2002

Awards/Honors

• Maxell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2003
• Harry Lawton Award in Screenwriting, 2005

(publishing as A.N. Teibe)
MFA 2010 (in progress)

Publications 

• "Hover & Grasp", Ekphrasis, forthcoming "Sightless Light," Rhapsoidia, Issue 1, 2002
• "In Memoriam of Myself", The Pacific Review
• The Click of Degree", "Past the Edges", "wither, blossom, scatter", Metamorphoses
• "Birds", "Focused", Separation
• "Grandfather's Garden in Oil", "Alone", "Two Kinds of Waves", Muse
• "After the Freeze", The Pacific Review
• "Group Therapy", second place Utah State University Scholars Day Awards

Interviews

• Interview with DeWitt Henry, founder of Ploughshares literary magazine
  Originally published in The Pacific Review Reprinted at http://www.dewitthenry.com/works.htm

Awards/Honors

• Grant Recipient to attend Iowa Summer Writing Festival, 2006 & 2007

MFA 2009 (in progress)
           
Publications

• The Heart's Traffic, novel in poems, Red Hen Press 2009
• Two poems in Yellow As Tumeric, Fragrant as Cloves anthology, Deep Bowl Press, 2009
• "The Sky's Full Contents," poem, Monday Night, 2009
• "The Origins of the Chinky Font", Hyphen Magazine (#16, Consumption)
• Two poems, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2009 & 2008
• "With," poem, Iron Horse Literary review, 2008
• "Thousand Year Egg", Water~Stone Review, 2008
• Four poems in Poemeleon, "Persona Poem" issue, 2008
• Three poems in OCHO 16 (print companion to MiPOesias) 2008
• "Disjuncted Desert: some haibun," poem, Phantom Seed, 2008
• "After Virginia Tech," poem, Capital Bookfest's Family Pictures
• "It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a Hindu Goddess?" non-fiction, Hyphen Magazine 2007
• Four non-fiction pieces, Hyphen Magazine
• "fob," poem,  Trans issue of Tea Party 2007
• "tale," poem, CRATE, 2007
• "Starfish 2," poem, Growing Up Girl: Voices from Marginalized Spaces, 2006

Online Publications

• Two poems in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 2009
• "Disciple," poem, Sunday Salon, 2009
• Four poems in Poemeleon, "Persona Poem" issue, 2008
• "From New Orleans."  Guest Blog for E. Ethelbert Miller's The E-Mag: A Sunday Kind of Love, 2006

Productions

• Roundtable discussion and performance/reading, "Disrupting the Page: Hybridity & Asian American Poetics," Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2009
• The Geisha Interviews, regional finals, KCACTF Cauble's Corner/New Play Development 2009
• We Will Not Be Moved: A Story of Oakland Chinatown, a film. 2004

Awards/Honors

• One Pushcart nomination for poetry, 2009
• Scholarship Competition Winner, Writer Conferences and Center, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2007
• Honorable Mention for "Two River Girls," Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2007
• Fellowship, Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, 2007
• Zora Neale Hurston Award Recipient, Naropa Summer Writing Program, 2006
• 2nd place, "War," People Before Profit Poetry Prize, 2006

MFA 2007

Publications

• Clocks We Watch, Plainview Press, 2008
• Ovation Road, Plain View Press 2008
• Poetry published in the following journals:  Muse, Pudding, Arrowsmith, Pearl, The Pacific Review, Epicenter, The Sulphur River Review, Wednesday, Spillway and Left Behind.

Awards/Honors

• Teaching Assistant of the Year, UC Riverside.  2006/2007
• Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize, 2007
• Ocean Award, Second Place Poetry, 2005
• Cordell-Briggs Writing Award, (Poetry) Volume IX, Issue 1, 1995
• Society of American Pen Women, Honorable Mention, 1998

MFA 2008

Productions

• Bacciarelli (AKA The Bacciarelli Issue), stage play, Ruskin Group Theatre 2007, and UCR mainstage 2008
• Searching for Mari, stage play, Pittsburgh New Works Festival 2002
• As far as Spokane, stage play, Bloomington, Indiana 2004
• Beartooth, stage play, Pittsburgh New Works Festival 2004; also produced at Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA 2005
• Boom, stage play, Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA 2003, and as part of the Patriot Acts Festival at the Alliance Repertory Co., Burbank, CA 2004

Interviews

• "Playwright tries to lighten up at UCR," The Press-Enterprise, Jan. 25 2008 http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=16013           

Awards/Honors

• Samuel Goldwyn Award 2007
• Searching for Mari nominated for best playwright and best production at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival 2002
• As far as Spokane, finalist, Reva Shiner full-length play contest, Bloomington, Indiana 2004
• Beartooth, stage play, nominated for best production, Pittsburgh New Works Festival 2004

MFA 2007

Publications

• "How to Seal a Mouth," poem, Kaleidowhril Literary Journal, Winter 2008
• No Honey for Wild Beasts, poetry collection, Plain View Press 2008
• Five poems selected for the "Senior Editor's Choice" of Poetry Magazine, Winter 2007

Awards/Honors

• UC Riverside Poet Laureate Award, 2007
•  Thomas Rivera Selection for Poetry, 2007
• Pushcart Prize Nominee

MFA 2008

Publications

• The Ravenous Audience, poetry collection, Black Goat Press/Akashic Books 2009
• Amelia Earhart: Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot  (Poetry Chapbook; Dancing Girl Press 2009)
• "Brief Crossing" (poem) in elimae
• "Unlearning to Read," "S&D", and "Captives" (poems) in diode
• "36 fillette" and "Sex is Comedy" (poems) in Drunken Boat
• "A Real Young Girl" (poem) in The Ledge
• "Swell" (poem) in Boxcar Poetry Review
• "Desgracia" and "Desert Fall" (poems) in Moondance
• Review of Karen Harryman's Auto Mechanic's Daughter in Boxcar  Poetry Review

Interviews

• Interview with Gabriela Jauregui in Asian American Poetry and Writing
•  Interview with Chris Abani in The Elegant Variation

MFA 2007

Publications

• "Whirl" published on poetry.com http://www.poetry.com/dotnet/P7141456/999/1/display.aspx
• Her work has appeared in the UC Riverside Mosaic Literary Journal
• UCR Magazine:  The Journey, Volume 2, Issue 1, Borders

Awards/Honors

• First runner-up for poetry in the Hayden's Ferry Review Holiday Blog Contest, for the coming-of-age poem, "Red Season"
• Clara Peretzman Scholarship for Immigrant Women, 2006

MFA 2009 In-Progress

Awards/Honors

• First Place, "The Hands of Time," (the first ten pages), Hang 10 Screenwriting Contest

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Publications

• "Westbound," short story, Fresh Ink, December 2008

Awards/Honors

• First prize, Fiction, Inland Empire California Writers Club 2008 Writing Contest

MFA 2006

Productions

• The Rise and Fall of Irvine Meadows West, documentary screened in Los Angeles at the Downtown and Indie Fest

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Publications

• "Reading Rilke," short story, Ampersand Review, Spring 2009
• "Chasing Adnois," short story,  anderbo.com, Fall 2008
• "No Cause for Concern," short story, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Spring 2008

Awards/Honors

• Nominated for a storysouth Million writers award

MFA 2008
www.inlandtheatreworks.com

Productions

• Shakespeare and the City (commissioned), stage play, The Fictitious Theatre Company, San Bernardino, CA, Summer 2007, mainstage production

Interviews

• "Theatre Company to Present Two Plays," The Sun, August 16, 2007 http://www.sbsun.com/columnists/ci_6635183?fromrss=1

Awards/Honors

• Graduate Division Fellowship, UC Riverside, 2006-07
• Inland Theatre League Award for performance, 2007
• Maxell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2008
• FTC Inland Theatre Works 2008 "3D Theatre Festival" 2nd Place Prize for Best Original 10-Minute Play

MFA 2008

Publications

• "Driving Away", Kestrel, expected 2009
•  "Siddhartha's Pinwheel", Kestrel, expected 2009

Reviews

• Review of David Tucker in Review Revue

MFA 2009 (in progress)
www.vanessahua.com

Publications

• "The Art of Chinese Cooking," article, Newsweek, June 30, 2008
• "For What They Shared," short story, River Styx, Fall 2008
• "What We Have is What We Need," short story, American Literary Review  2008
• "The Responsibility of Deceit," short story, Cream City Review, fiction contest winner 2006

Online publications

• "Staking Claim," Fiction Attic; "Like Reyes," VerbSap; "Gone Wild" and "How to Lose Your Two Best Friends," Salt River Review; "Absence," Blood Orange Review

Awards/Honors

• First prize, Atlantic Monthly fiction contest 2008
• Fiction contest winner 2006, Cream City Review, "The Responsibility of Deceit"
• Honorable Mention, Stanford magazine fiction contest 2005, "Cruise Control"
• 2006 James Madison Freedom of Information Award, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter
• 2007 and 2008, Asian American Journalists Association, National Journalism Awards

Interviews

• UC Riverside student unlocks path to fame, March 27, 2008 http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_vanessa27.9c8b8b.html

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Productions

• Mercury, Mars, and Mayhem, play, finalist in the Isis New Play Competition 2008
• Commissioned to write an adaptation of Frankenstein for Murrieta Repertory Theatre 2008

Interviews

• "Backstage With: Actor, director, teacher Paul Jacques," The Press-Enterprise, March 18, 2008
• http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=16353

Awards/Honors

• Two Inland Theatre League Award for performance, 2008

MFA 2007
http://www.gabrielajauregui.net

Publications

• Controlled Decay, poetry collection, Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008
• "Blood Sausage" (poem) published in Hayden's Ferry Review, special themed issue on The Grotesque (June 2008)
• "Apuntes on Orientalism in/and Latin American Literature: Darío, Tablada, Borges, Paz and Sarduy" (article) published in The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (March-June issue, 2008)
• "Pull the Trigger!" article published in The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III (Welchman, John C. ed., JRP Ringier, 2008)
• "Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza" (interview) published in BOMB magazine (2008): http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3072
• Ball Game (novel excerpt) published in Guernica Magazine (guest edited by Francisco Goldman, October 2007): http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/455/ball_game_a_novel_excerpt_1/
• "Thoughts on Failure, Idealism, and Art: A Symposium" (interview) in Failure! Experimental Aesthetic and Social Practices.  (Antebbi, Nicole, Dickey, Colin and Herbst, Robbie, eds., Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2006)
• "Necropolis: Exhuming the Works of Teresa Margolles" (article) published in: Muerte Sin Fin: Teresa Margolles Exhibition Catalogue (Distributed Art Publishers and Museum für Moderne Kunst and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004)
• "Eat it Alive and Swallow it Whole!: Re-savoring Cannibal Holocaust as a Mockumentary." (article) published in InVisible Culture (Issue no.7, University of Rochester, Winter 2004)

Reviews and interviews

• http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_
• http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/books/poetry-roundup-june08
• http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/06/small-press-spotlight-gabriela-jauregui.html
• http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/

Awards.Honors

• Soros New American Fellowship for 2007-08

MFA 2009 (in progress)
http://www.evakonstantopoulos.blogspot.com

 Publications

• "We Are Daughters Of The Sun," Slab: Sound And Literary Art Book, Issue 2, Spring 2007
• "Other is the Sky," lotus.zine, Volume 4, Spring 2007

Online Publications:

• "You May Get Lost," Why Vandalism? Feb/March 2008 Double Issue
• "Stranger Stranger," Storyglossia, Issue 25, December 2007
• "A Borrowed Life," Word Riot, May 2007 Issue
• "We Create Earth As We Sleep," Rumble, March 2007
• "Joy," Rumble, March 2007
• "Living in Hotels," Conte, Issue 1, May 2005

Awards/Honors

• Circleframe Screenwriting Award for Best Screenplay, "The Virgin of Poughkeepsie," 2008 Gotham Screen International Film Festival

MFA 2006
http://www.rebeccakoconnor.com

Publications

• A Parrot for Life, Non-fiction book, TFH Publications, 2007
• Lift, memoir, Red Hen Press  (forthcoming; excerpts in Colorado Desert (The Coachella Valley) Anthology edited by Ruth Nolan,) Heyday Books 2007
• "Postcard from Above," article, West Magazine December 2006
• "Mercy," South Dakota Review, Summer 2006
• How Should the World Respond to Natural Disasters? Non-fiction, At Issue Series, Greenhaven Press 2006
• Is There Life After Death? Non-fiction, At Issue Series, Greenhaven Press 2005
• "Pantry Check," Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 2005
• Uniquely Nevada, Non-fiction, Heinemann 2004
• Acid Rain (Overview Series), Lucent Books 2003
• Falcon's Return, Avalon Career Romance, June 2002

Interviews

• Interviewed by Patricia McConnell on NPR, October 6, 2007: http://www.wpr.org/PETS/index.htm   

Awards/Honors

• Pushcart Prize Nominee 2007
• The Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship to the Tomales Bay Writers' Workshops
• The Carlisle Family Scholarship to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Workshops
• Fellowship to the San Juan Writers' Workshops
• McQuern Fellowship in Nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Publications

• "Cabeza de Pedo" short story published in Gertrude, 2009 (Forthcoming)
• "Family Kleenex (tm)," short story, ZZYZYVA Spring 2008

Productions

• "Trainwhistles" selected to a have a reading in the SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL at the 2009 KCACTF National Festival, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, April 13-18
• Ninety-Nine Cents Plus, regional finals, KCACTF Cauble's Corner/New Play Development 2009
• Game, KCACTF regional finals, ten-minute play entry 2008
• Paris Park, Playwrights at the Loft in Redlands reading 2008
• Starry Night, FTC Inland Theatre Works ten-minute play performance 2008
• My Avisia Winger, Barnyard Theatre mainstage production 2004

Awards/Honors

• Pushcart Prize Nomination

MFA 2006
www.victoriapatterson.net

Publications

• "The First and Second Time" short story in Freight Stories no. 5 March/April 2009
• "Winter Formal" short story in The Southern Review, Volume 45:1 Winter 2009
• Drift, collection of short stories, Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Trade Back Original,  2009
• "Johnny Hitman" short story in Santa Monica Review, Spring 2008
• "The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fizziwig" short story in The Florida Review, Spring 2008
• "Joe/Christina,"  short story, Snake Nation Review 2007
• "Sweet Rolls and Vodka," short story, The Sun, July 2006
• "Parking Far Away," short story, Crate Magazine 2006
• "Thighs," short story, Quality Women's Fiction 2005
• "Baby Talk", "The Soccer Banner", "Morphine and Mother's Milk," short stories, Literary Mama 2001, 2002, 2003
• "Morphine and Mother's Milk," HipMama 1999

Interviews

• http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/feature.php?recordID=27

Awards/Honors

• The Abraham Polonsky Award in Fiction 2006
• Thesis Fellowship for Spring/Summer 2006
• Squaw Valley Scholarship, University of California, Riverside 2006
• Snake Nation Press Nonfiction Award 2005
• Gluck Fellowship 2004, 2005
• Dean's Fellowship Award 2004, 2005

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Publications

• "Spilling the Beans," short story, Kalliope 2007

MFA 2008
http://www.richardasanchez.com/

•  "The Girl Next Door," short story, Tin House, Summer 2006
• "Basketball Gods," short story, The Pacific Review, Spring 2005

MFA 2005

Publications

• Creative nonfiction, "Desert Blessing" in Hotel Amerika Transgenre Issue (Spring 2009)
• Fiction, "Continuation School," in Green Mountains Review all-fiction issue (Spring 2009)
• Essay chapter, "Language Teachers and the Law: Resisting Silence" in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press) (April 2009)
• Essay, "Recovering Teacher," in Memoir(and) (Winter 2009)
• Creative nonfiction, "Domestic Order Suite," in turnrow, University of Louisiana at Monroe (Winter 2009)
• Creative nonfiction, "Calling," in Ruminate: A Magazine of Faith in Literature, Issue #9 (Fall 2008)
• Creative nonfiction, "Half-Hour Lunch," in Babel Fruit online (Summer 2008)
• Essay, "The Recesses of High School" in River Teeth 9.2, University of Nebraska Press (Spring 2008)
• Essay, "The Teachers, the Termites, and the Test," with Stephanie Hammer, PhD, co-author, in CRATE: A Journal of Literary Borders and Boundaries (Spring 2008)
• Essay, "Teaching at Point Blank" in  Fourth Genre 9.2, Michigan State University Press (Fall 2007)
• Creative nonfiction, "How Data Will Save Us" in Swink (May 2007)
• Creative nonfiction, "Rosary for a Childless Mother" in So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (Winter/Spring 2007)
• Creative nonfiction, "In/Out" in Ninth Letter Vol. 3.2 (Fall 2006)
• Poem, "Home From the Y" in Pearl #35 (Spring 2006)
• Poems, "She Said," and "But She Didn’t Quit Teaching" in Chiron Review #78 (Spring 2005)
• Essay, "Nobody Likes a Brainiac" in The Los Angeles Times (Sunday March 14, 2004)

Interviews

• Interview with poet Donna Hilbert as cover story for Chiron Review #84 (Fall 2008)
• Interview with essayist Richard Rodriguez, in Narrative Magazine (Winter 2008)
• Interview with playwright Kate Anger in CRATE: A Journal of Literary Borders and Boundaries (April 2005)

Awards/Honors

• Pushcart Special Mention in nonfiction for "Teaching at Point Blank" (2009)
• Editor’s choice in nonfiction at So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (2007)
• Honorable Mention, Fourth Genre essay competition (2006)
• Honorable Mention, New Letters essay competition (2006)
• Top-3 Finalist, Kentucky Women Writers Nonfiction Competition (2006)
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant at UC Riverside (Spring 2005)
• Recipient, Dean’s Fellowship, MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Riverside (2003-05)

Radio

• Invited guest of John Cromshow's show, "Politics or Pedagogy?", on KPFK radio (2009)

MFA 2006

Publications

• Closet Drama, poetry collection, Bear Star Press 2001
• Poems published in over thirty literary magazines, including Arshile, The Sonora Review, Puerto del Sol, and Artful Dodge

Productions

• Stage plays for youth, Dinner in Oz, A Midsummer Night's Teen, After Ever Happily, and Paper Umbrellas published by Eldridge Plays and Musicals

Awards/Honors

• California State University Creative Writing Program Award for Poetry

MFA 2007

Productions

• Costo, 10 minute  play about Native American activists Rupert and Jeannette H. Costo, as part of Grier Living Histories, funded through the City of Riverside, CA, production expected Sept. 2008
• One Final Moment, staged reading, one act play, new play development, The Performance Loft, Redlands, Ca. May 14, 2008
• Santa Angel, 10 minute play reading, new play development, Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, April 27, 2008
• The Booth, staged reading, one-act play, new work development, Theatre 150, Ojai, Ca. November 2007
• Invited Production, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region VIII  festival, Cedar City, Utah, February 2007
• Incomplete Family, one-act play, Playworks, University of California, Riverside, June 2007
• I Do, I Don't and Lunchtime Angel, original ten minute plays produced in Retracing the Declaration of Sentiments, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, February 2006

Online Publications

•  "Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e: Revisions" paper e-published in California Digital Library, e-Scholarship repository, http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/
• INsider Magazine interview with Bruce Campbell, http://www.insidermag.net/id141.html

Interviews

• Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA — Summer 2006, interviewed as part of article for Maxwell H. Gluck Inaugural Summer Camp for the Arts.

Awards/Honors

• Semi-Finalist, (with John Shannon, MFA 2006) Disney/ABC TV Writers Fellowship competition, 2009
• Animal Passion, Screenwriting Award, Riverside International Film Festival, 2008
• The Booth, Best of Festival Award, one-act play, invited production, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region VIII  festival, Meritorious Recognition, Cedar City, Utah, February 2007
• Hush Little Baby, Honorable Mention, 75th annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, 2006, Television/Movie Script category
• Triggers, Honorable Mention, 75th annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, 2006, Playwriting category
• Family Place, Semi-finalist, 2001, Chesterfield Screenwriting competition
• Multiple Maxwell H. Gluck Graduate Fellowships, in Theatre, Department of Creative Writing/Writing for the Performing Arts, University of California, Riverside. Summer 2007, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006
• Multiple Maxwell H. Gluck Graduate Teaching Fellowships, Theatre, University of California, Riverside. 2006-2008

MFA 2008

Productions

• A Little Angel Now, stage play, Barnyard Theatre, Davis CA, summer 2008 mainstage production

MFA 2007
www.frequentwind.com (writing)
www.aapw-la.org (magazine/arts organization)

Interviews

• KPFA
•  KCET/ARTSBlock Live
• Interview of Nam Le, author of The Boat

Awards/Honors           

• "I Will Love You More Than I Can" and "A Thing Called Exodus" Finalists for 2008 Short Story Contest from Hyphen Magazine/Asian American Writers' Workshop
• Breadloaf Writer's Conference acceptances in 2007 and 2008 (Tution scholar finalist
• Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, UC Riverside, 2006
• Rose/DeFillis Fiction Scholarship, Napa Valley Writers Conference, 2006
• Fiction Scholarship, Wesleyan Writers Conference, 2006
• Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 2006
• New America Media Award for Art, Sports, and Entertainment category, 2006
• New America Media Award for Opinion-Editorial category, 2005
• Fiction Scholarship, Voices of Our Nation Writers Conference, 2005
• Graduate Division Fellowship, UC Riverside, 2005-06

MFA 2009 (in progress)

Productions

• Liquid, full-length, Unknown Theatre, summer 2009
• What Pola Wants, one-act in L.A. Views,  Company of Angels, 2009
• Things That Fall from the Sky, New Play Development Workshop, at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, 2009
• Cyberlilly Seven, media performance piece,  UCIRA conference and Bootleg Theatre, 2008
• Fables du Theatre, full-length play,Unknown Theatre, 2008
• Jackalling, one-act in L.A. Views, Company of Angels, 2008
• Insert Objections Here, play, Mid America Theatre Conference Fringe Festival 2008
• Things That Fall From the Sky, KCACTF National Playwriting Program ten-minute play regional finalist 2009
• American College Theatre Festival: play presentation -Two Chairs With Adam and Sophie- 2008
• Impossible Movies, EdgeFest Los Angeles — Writer/Performer 2007
• Big Baby, Unknown Theater — One-Act Festival — 2006
• The Spanish Café, L.A. History Project - Writer/Co-director
• Multi-media theatre piece — produced by 24th Street Theatre

Papers

• Comparative Dramatics Conference 2009
  • Fables du Theatre: Liminal Space, Narrative Disruption, Audience Reaction"
• Mid America Theatre Conference 2009 (The Poor Theater)
  • "99-seats on 99-cents: the current state of small theatre in L.A."
• Comparative Dramatics Conference, Loyola Marymount, 2008
  • Collision or Collusion with the Audience in Collage Dance Theatre's C'Opera
•  (Dis) junctions, University of California, 2008
  • panel and series of creative presentations entitled:
  • "Creative Writing Across Campus Divides: Writers in Collaboration with Academic Researchers"
• Mid America Theatre Conference 2008 (Extreme Theatre symposium)
  • "Process and Participation: Models from the Social Sciences for Collaborative and Devised Theatre (pedagogy)" and 
  • "Extreme Collaboration in Devised Work for Small Theatre: Creating Viable Processes with Limited Resources (directing),
  •  "Postdramatic Theatre in the L.A. Police Academy: Collage Dance Theatre's C'Opera", (MATC academic journal review)

Awards/Honors

• KCACTF John Cauble National Playwriting Finalist, 2009
• Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2009
• Mellon Workshop grant — Convergence of Cultures: Scientific Realms and Creative Production 2008
• UCR Humanities Fellowship, 2008
• Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2008
• Edge Fest Los Angeles, New Works Festival,  2007 Impossible Movies
• Los Angeles Conservancy, Performance Grant, Wilshire Words, ­2005
• Los Angeles History Project, Performance Grant, 2005, The Spanish Cafe

MFA 2008
www.alexisv.wordpress.com

Publications

• "Letters Through Glass", Finishing Line Press, 2009
• "Issues of Translation," "Letter to Vallejo," "On Hearing an Uncertainty," poetry, Plankton Magazine, Vol 1, Summer 2007
• "The Way Things Disappear," poem, Damselfly Press, Winter 2008
• "Rusalka," poem, forthcoming, Tales of the Unanticipated
• "The Wolf and the Girl," poem, forthcoming, Goblin Fruit
• "The Translucent Nature of Irises," poetry sequence, Diode Poetry Online, Winter 2007
• "At the Zoo," poem, Eclectica Magazine, Vol 5 N 4, Oct/Nov 2001

Interviews

• The Moe Green Poetry Hour Hosted By Rafael F.J. Alvarado & Kate Durbin

MFA 2008

• Squaw Valley Writing Workshop 2008