Colleen Hofstadter Hlavac completed her debut mystery novel, The Stalker in the Desert, in November 2021. The novel has become an international seller, achieving sales in seventeen countries. Colleen’s next novel, Liquid Deceptions, is hitting shelves this summer. For more information, visit colleenhlavac.com.  Class Secretary: Althea Kippes, atkippes@alumni.haas.org

Family Violence

It was the insects that got to her first. Sylvia Sellers-García says family legend has it that even as a baby in Central America, the bugs made quite an impact on her. “They are very different from insects here,” says Sellers-García, a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Berkeley. “They are un-ignorable.” She remembers […]

Michael J. Coffino, J.D. ’79, writes: “After 40 years of law practice and 25 parallel years as a high school basketball coach, I became a professional writer. Since then, I have authored and co-authored eight published books. The most recent is my debut (and award-winning) novel, Truth Is in the House, a work of historical […]