GPS Degree: Creative Nonfiction
Lizette Aurelia Roman-Johnston
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Hometown
Wilton, ConnecticutMy Greatest Supporters
I'd like to thank the Saint Mary's MFA community. All my classmates, professors, and other faculty members have given me guidance, friendship, and support on my way to receiving my MFA. Thanks to my family at home in Connecticut: Momes, Diddy, Nickle, Ken, and Winnie. And thanks to my California family: Robert, Stompy, Nick, Julia, and everyone else who has made the Bay Area feel like home!
Favorite Saint Mary's Memory
My favorite Saint Mary's memory was getting to meet up with my classmates at the Canyon Club after evening classes. On one evening, I got to be part of a reading and read a piece about Trader Joe's cauliflower crust pizza!
My Next Chapter
My next chapter is... my next chapter. I am ready to keep writing my memoir!
Clubs and Activities
MARY: A Journal of New WritingWriting Circle Professor
Graduate Student Reading Committee
Graduate Assistant of SMC Softball Team
Favorite Quote
"Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets."
Xin He
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Mikaela Sutherland Dunitz
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Rai Maia Ahmed-Green
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Honors
School of Liberal Arts Dean's Award
Hometown
Irvine, CAAward Bio
Rai Ahmed-Green is committed to writing about the struggle and necessity of finding joy where it exists. Her writing explores the nature of truth in memory, often captured in essays about home, nature, love, and grief. Her current projects include a collection of nonfiction essays about love in its many facets and an Afrofuturistic novel that questions the relationship between God and humanity.
My Greatest Supporters
Many thanks to my greatest supporters and sources of inspiration, my parents, Zahra Ahmed, Darian Green, Jonathan Gilmer and Natasha Green. My grandmothers Grandma Z and Grandma Dorothy. My grandfathers Grandpa Abah and Grandpa Benny, my cousin Whitney Smith and my dear friend Nyasha Makaza.