Zoé Murphy won the 2019 Jessamyn West High School Creative Writing Contest first prize in non-fiction for her submission The Ugly Duckling and Conformity (she wrote while at Oxbow).
At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind and because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.
— Charles Altieri, Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Oxbow forced me to create, and by creating, I established foundation for my thought.
— Jamie Roux, Spring 2003
Advice I would give to future students is to just do it and come to Oxbow and not overthink it because it will most likely (99.9%) be the best decision you have made in your life.
— Malachi Snyder, Spring 2018
A School Like No Other