Campus: Los Angeles
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Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che (acting co-chair / core poetry faculty) is the author ofBecoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the NationalBook Award, a Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, an American LibraryAssociation Notable Book, an NPR Books We Love Selection, ElectricLiterature's Best Poetry Collection, a Ms. Magazine Best Poetry selection, andWinner of the…
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Jack Cheng
Jack Cheng is a Shanghai-born, Michigan-bred author of critically acclaimed fiction for young readers. His debut children’s novel, See You in the Cosmos (2017), won the Golden Kite and Great Lakes, Great Reads awards for Best Middle Grade Fiction. His latest book, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou (2023), is a Kids’ Indie Next and…
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Rachel Fusco, LPC, LPCC, LMFT
Rachel Fusco is an educator and mental health professional dedicated to transforming the way we prepare young people for adulthood. She has spent the past twenty years supporting children directly as well as teachers and parents in public schools, private schools, and community settings.
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Monica Fyfe
Monica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a BCBA, and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S), one of the few in Southern CA. Monica owns a Group Private Practice in Torrance called, Play 2 Learn, providing counseling and play therapy to children, teens and families.
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Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is the Japanese and Kanaka ʻŌiwi author of Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare (Bloomsbury 2023), a USA Today national bestseller. She is the recipient of the 2025 Elliot Cades Award for Literature for Emerging Artist from the Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council and the “Author Under 35” Award by the HONOLULU Book Awards. Named…
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Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.
