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MFA in Poetry and Fiction
Poetry
Student Information
Adriana Alexander 
Adriana is a poet and educator from Southern California with a background in designing and implementing community-based writing projects, including the ESL Poetry Project which she founded in her hometown of Santa Ana. She received her BA in World Literature from UC San Diego and is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at UC Irvine.

Leah Dunham 
DunhamHometown: Chapel Hill, NC.
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005, Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in Creative Writing. Blanche Armfield Prize for Poetry, 2004.

Lena Firestone 
FirestoneHometown: Santa Barbara, CA
B.A.,College of Creative Studies at UCSB, 2006

Mark Hendrickson 
Hometown: Diamond Bar, CA
B.A., UC Irvine, 2007

David Hernandez 
HernandezHometown: Cerritos, CA
B.A.,California State University, Long Beach, 1998

David has published two books of poems, A House Waiting for Music and Always Danger. He lives in Long Beach with his wife (Lisa Glatt), two cats (Diego & Sadie), and the occasional possum in the attic.

Rachel Hinton 
HintonHometown: Middlesex, VT
B.A., Kenyon College, 2006

Leah Kaminski 
KaminskiBA, Harvard

James Lee 
Hometown: Garden Grove, CA
B.A., UC Irvine 2009

Michael Liaw 
LiawHometown: none. The last place before living in SoCal was Hong Kong.

BS in Mathematics from Biola University.

Greg McClure 
McClureHometown: Los Angeles, CA
B.A., UC Irvine, 2007,
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Erika Palsson 

B.A., Dance, UC Irvine


Luke Reid 
ReidHometown: Montreal, Quebec
B.A., University of Toronto, 2007

Luke Reid is fairly certain you'll break his heart, but he's along for the ride all the same.

Elizabeth Wyatt 
WyattHometown: Marietta, GA
B.A., Southern Methodist University, 2004,
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Though all experiments conducted thus far suggest that Elizabeth does not possess the power of flight, she has not yet given up hope.