Klara Wetmore married artist Jivan Lee last summer. Klara is (still) an artist and also a student at Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, NM.

Samantha Eliot Stier, MFA, recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and has had her work published in several literary journals. A selection of her stories was featured in the New Short Fiction Series, LA’s longest running spoken word series, and one of her short stories won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards. This fall she will travel to Guadalajara, Spain, to teach English at an elementary school.

Zach Goldman is living in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a Chef. After running his first restaurant, and assisting with his first opening, he’s getting ready to take a break from the kitchen. He will soon start working in the front of the house in order to study foodservice hospitality with a focus on beverage pairing. He’s really excited to delve into a new facet of a world with which he is totally in love. 

Emma Franco is currently serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Indonesia. She teaches English to high school students in a village on the Island of Java where, ironically, there is no good coffee.

Susanne Fili, MS, recently moved to Oneida, NY, and is currently the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Central New York Research Corporation, which operates out of the Syracuse VA Medical Center.

Caitlin Blau is in the midst of her 3rd year at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine; she’s doing clinical rotations at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria, CA. She has spent time working in psychiatry, family medicine, surgery, and pediatrics, and is trying to decide between family medicine and obstetrics/gynecology for her future specialty.

Nadia Bedard recently graduated from the University at Albany with a perfect 4.0 GPA and a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in English. She is thrilled to be continuing her education this year at the Free Columbia Art Course in Philmont, NY, where she is studying art as it relates to social change, economics, a spiritual path, and healing. Further, she plans to go on to a graduate program in International Conflict Resolution, and one day rule the world.