“The low-residency program worked for my life, because I needed to work."
Running, hiking, mentoring troubled young women
Media and journalism writing teacher in after-school program; teaching assistant for College of the Desert; creative writing teacher for incarcerated teenage girls, whose work she publishes in a quarterly magazine/anthology. An essay by Antonia will be published an upcoming issue of Salon. To learn more about Antonia, visit her website or follow her on Twitter @antoniacrane.
“The MFA program taught me perseverance and the importance of building a literary community. Since graduating, I started a literary journal with alumni from the program. We have readings and we meet and we’re out in the world, supporting other writers.”