Kudos

Goucher College is proud of all its graduating seniors, who will receive their degrees on May 23. The Baltimore Sun profiled one student’s remarkable journey to Goucher.

UCLA profiled Arienna Grody ’10, for her impassioned support and advocacy for the disadvantaged and for her honor as the winner of the first UCLA Gideon’s Promise Fellowship, which helps recruit talented, third-year law students interested in public service careers and places them in positions at underserved public defender offices.

The Daily Yonder profiles Lauren Schneiderman ’08, a photographer documenting the West Virginian coal economy.

Jackson Gilman-Forlini ’12, historic properties coordinator for Baltimore’s Department of General Services, speaks with The Baltimore Sun about the city’s plans for some historic properties.

Uta Larkey, associate professor of German, was selected as a contributing participant to the Sixth Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars in July 2014 in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Her talk is titled “Fear and Terror: The Deportations of Polish Jews in October 1938.” During her sabbatical this semester Larkey has been invited to present several

Debra Engle, a 2004 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative nonfiction program, has a new book coming out this fall. The Only Little Prayer You Need will be published by Hampton Road and will feature a foreword written by the Dalai Lama. She is also working on a documentary in association with Iowa Public Television.

Earl Swift’s new book, Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream, has received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus praised it as “a compassionate yet never overly nostalgic nonfiction portrait of two behemoths from another age.” Swift is a 2011 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative

Tim W. Jackson, a 2006 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative nonfiction program, has a new book, Gone Pro North Carolina: Tar Heel Stars Who Became Pros, which was published April 1 by Clerisy Press.

Richard Gilbert’s book Shepherd: A Memoir has received positive feedback from Kirkus Reviews. Gilbert, a 2007 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative nonfiction program, is praised for his “thoughtful memoir of rams and ewes, farmers and family, life and death.” The book comes out May 1.

Todd South, a 2013 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative nonfiction program, was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in local reporting for a series that appeared in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The committee recognized him “for using an array of journalistic tools to explore the ‘no-snitch’ culture that helps perpetuate a cycle of violence