{"id":7508,"date":"2026-06-14T02:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:29:08","slug":"reflection-kristy-m-towson-ba-21-mfa-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/reflection-kristy-m-towson-ba-21-mfa-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristy M. Towson, B.A. \u201921, MFA \u201925"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7508\" class=\"elementor elementor-7508\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-356ef4b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"356ef4b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1b31d9\" data-id=\"a1b31d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-815bfc5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"815bfc5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7509 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1160\/2026\/06\/Kristy-Towson-Green-941x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Kristy M. Towson, B.A. \u201921, MFA \u201925\" width=\"700\" height=\"762\" \/><\/p><blockquote><p>BIO<\/p><ul><li>B.A. \u201921, MFA \u201925, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences<\/li><li>Class of 2025 commencement speaker<\/li><li>Author and podcast host <em>Speak Up Against Stigma<\/em><\/li><li>Chief executive officer, Written Hope Publishing<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>Eight years ago, I was depressed and suicidal. I was so suicidal that I burned my house down with me in it because I wanted to die.<\/p><p>I\u2019m grateful that I did not die that day. But I was arrested and sent to the county jail for thirty days. All this happened while I was an undergraduate student here at The University of Baltimore. While in jail, a guard quietly slid a pen and paper across the table. I took it, not knowing what I would write. One page turned into two. Then three. Before I knew it, I had a stack of paper filled with emotions I had never released, not even in therapy.<\/p><p>That pen saved my life.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/reflection-kristy-m-towson-ba-21-mfa-25\/#more-7508\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Kristy M. Towson, B.A. \u201921, MFA \u201925\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO B.A. \u201921, MFA \u201925, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2025 commencement speaker Author and podcast host Speak Up Against Stigma Chief executive officer, Written Hope Publishing Eight years ago, I was depressed and suicidal. I was so suicidal that I burned my house down with me in it because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}