Content Tagged with: UCR Palm Desert low-residency MFA program

Writing program authors selected for year’s best mystery stories

Two UC Riverside creative writing authors have stories included in this year’s “The Best American Mystery and Suspense” short fiction collection. Tod Goldberg, adjunct professor of creative writing and director of the UCR Palm Desert low-residency MFA program, and Ivy Pochoda, an adjunct assistant professor with the program, are among the 20...

By Imran Ghori |

Ivy Pochoda is LA Times Book Prize finalist

"Sing Her Down" is Pochoda's sixth novel.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Tod Goldberg’s ‘The Low Desert: Gangster Stories’ named among Southwest Books of the Year

The fictional stories are influenced by the desert southwest.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Stephen Graham Jones awarded LA Times Book Prize for horror novel ‘The Only Good Indians’

Jones was named the winner of the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, announced during a virtual ceremony kicking off the 26th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 16.

By Jessica Weber |

Stephen Graham Jones finalist for LA Times Book Prize

His novel “The Only Good Indians” is nominated for The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction.

By Jessica Weber |

UCR creative writing professor wins literary grant

Tod Goldberg’s “The Outside In” was the first essay awarded a grant as part of a California Desert Arts Council initiative

By Jessica Weber |