CALARTS MFA students read from their work

Sydney Barile is a writer. She lives in Los Angeles—the city where she was born and raised; a city that continues to inspire and influence her work.

Anna Cruze is a writer and artist whose fictional work focuses on the supernatural/uncanny. Anna runs You Nerd You, a YouTube channel where she posts
lifestyle videos and discusses popular genre film, television and literature. She earned a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts in 2010. 

Regine Darius is a writer, associate editor and event planner for the internationally acclaimed magazine, Black Clock, and blogger for My Story Matters at
msmprettylipssealed.blogspot.com, where she explores and shares her Christian faith through devotionals. Darius also written for The Eye, Whole Magazine and The Good Women Project and is featured in the CalArts’ Writing program’s collection, Everybody Hold My Hand Right Now I Swear to God! 

Michelle Cohen is a native Californian writer and poet based in Los Angeles.