News from the School of IAS

Category: Alumni

Blooming Beyond the MFA: Emily J. Mundy’s What Blooms in the Dark

Seattle-based poet, teacher, and literary series curator Emily J. Mundy has recently published her debut book of poems, What Blooms in the Dark, with Moon Tide Press (October 2024). Mundy is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program at UW Bothell. Tracing the poet’s journey of release, return, and rebirth, this...

January 31, 2025

Double Feature Screening Showcases Filmmaking Talent in IAS

This spring, the School of IAS hosted a film screening in collaboration with students and alumni from our arts and media majors. The two short films, Glitter Tears and Rust and Resonance, were created by IAS alum Melissa Lopez (‘23) and current student Nour Currie. Supported by family, friends, and fellow students, the night served...

June 27, 2024

MFA Alum Abigail Mandlin founds Literary Journal – Heart on our Sleeves Press

Abigail Mandlin (MFA ’20) recently launched Heart on Our Sleeves Press, a literary magazine featuring poetry and prose. The title is a reference to the way writers encounter the world. As Mandlin writes, “[i]t’s our burden and our pleasure to experience the world in technicolor–in all caps–and it’s what drives us to the page, to...

March 28, 2024

Purpose, History, Justice, and the Paranormal

IAS alum Anthony Safai finds his passion in an unconventional place through his web series Existence in Silence “Just go out there and you’ll find something. You won’t expect it, but you’ll definitely find it.”  These are the words of Anthony Safai (’24), a recent graduate of UW Bothell who majored in Media & Communication...

March 25, 2024

Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf new collaboration – Occasional Objects

MFA Visiting Writer & Alum, Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf recently celebrated their new collaboration “Occasional Objects” at Common Area Maintenance. “The words stretched severely.” We arrived early to help Timothy set up the chairs, and to arrange them in a certain way, decide just where the mic would be. The small things like this...

February 29, 2024

GWSS Hosts the Social Justice Career Panel

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) Co-Directors Julie Shayne and Alka Kurian and GWSS Student Representatives Henry Ngyuen and Adrianna Horne hosted the Social Justice Career Panel at the North Creek Events Center.

January 26, 2023