BA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Bay alumnus from the Class of 2015, Arel remembers Ms. Cohen's lesson on punctuation in his Advanced Composition class as the first time he can remember being excited by the building blocks of writing. Beyond understanding the serious business of using a colon, he looks back on experiences like this during his time at Bay as the foundational roots for his love of literature and language. On any given weekend, you can usually find him playing soccer somewhere in the city, or on the couch reading a novel with his cat.