During the month of September, BMES played host to Christina Nichol, writer and recent Rona Jaffe award winner.

Christina, pictured 3rd from the left in the back row, just completed her first novel, Waiting for the Electricity, set in the Republic of Georgia.

Buck Mountain also hosted Olive McKeon, our first scholar in residence, shown here dutifully studying for her orals which will be taken at UCLA this winter.

When not studying Olive instigates great performances with SALTA, a collective of dancers she collaborates with.