Campus: Los Angeles
-
Thomas Mondragon, MA
Thomas Mondragon is fortunate to be an associate faculty in two groundbreaking and visionary specializations in the Master’s of Psychology program. He is a founding instructor in the LGBT Specialization, the first of its kind devoted to providing instruction, skills and theory necessary for effective clinical work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. He…
-
Alistair McCartney
Alistair McCartney is the author of 2 experimental novels, The Disintegrations: a Novel (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) and The End of the World Book (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.) The Disintegrations won the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. TEOTWB was a finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award 2009 and the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award 2009. McCartney’s…
-
Audrey Mandelbaum, MFA
Audrey Mandelbaum earned a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington and a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded the 2001 Friends of Photography Emerging Photographer Award, a City of Chicago CAAP Grant, was a finalist for a Creative Capital Grant, and received two Ragdale Foundation…
-
Charley Lang, LMFT
Charley Lang, LMFT, is co-founder of Narrative Counseling Center, providing resource-oriented consultation services for individuals, couples, and families, in addition to strength-based psychotherapy training for pre and post-licensed therapists.
-
Jim Krusoe
Jim Krusoe (fiction) has published two books of stories, Blood Lake and Abductions. His first novel, Iceland, was published by Dalkey Archive Press. Since then he has had five novels published by Tin House Books: Girl Factory, Erased, Toward You, Parsifal, and The Sleep Garden (2016). His stories and poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Bomb, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Field, North…
-
Brad Kessler
Brad Kessler is a critically acclaimed novelist whose work has been translated into several languages. He won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Fiction for his novel Birds in Fall, A Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Whiting Writers Award. He is an educator and farmer, and…