Recent Publications by Writing Program Instructors

Adair Lara, The Granny Diaries (Chronicle Books 2007).

Margaret Lucke, House of Whispers (Juno Books 2008). Find out more about Lucke at her website.

Audrey Ferber, "The New American Family Cookbook," in the online magazine Literary Mama, nominated for a Best of the Web Award; "April in Paris," in the Travelers Tales book A Women’s World Again; and "Retail Therapy," coming out this month in Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies.

Elizabeth Fishel, co-editor (with Terri Hinte) of Something That Matters: Life, Love, and Unexpected Adventures in the Middle of the Journey (Harwood Press), an anthology of essays about life's second acts.

Thaisa Frank, “Piercings,” a story in a Bloomsbury Press Anthology, “Thread” in Gargoyle, “Toba Sojo: The Father of Japanese Anime” in VOLT. Find out more about Frank at her website.

Online Work from Our Writing Instructors

Catherine W. Hollis
Read her review of Virginia Woolf Icon. Hollis teaches Why Climb? Victorian Mountaineers and Mountains on October 16.

Lindsey Crittenden
Crittenden published The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray last year. Learn more about her at her website. Crittenden teaches The Craft of Writing beginning September 15 and Writing Skills Workshop beginning September 18.

Thaisa Frank
Follow Frank’s writing career at her website. You can purchase her latest book, Sleeping in Velvet, from Amazon. You can also read several of her stories, “Traveling Clothes” and “Silver,” online.

Adair Lara
Her website chronicles her writing and teaching. This recent interview discusses her new book, The Granny Diaries.

Margaret Lucke
Read about Lucke at her website.

Audrey Ferber
Read Ferber’s short stories “The New American Family Cookbook” and “Retail Therapy” online.

Elizabeth Fishel
Fishel was a UC Berkeley Extension Honored Instructor in 2007. You can browse a list of her books available at Barnes and Noble.

Fishel teaches Writing for Magazines: A One Day Seminar on October 18.

Jeannette Ferrary
You can read a brief bio of Ferrary on the Via website, which also links to a selection of the food articles she has written for the publication.