January O'Neil, 2019-2020 John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence and author of Rewilding (CavanKerry Press, 2018) and Misery Islands (CavanKerry Press, 2014).
Richard Ford
Ann Fisher-Wirth, a professor of English and director of the environmental studies minor, has a new book of poetry, Mississippi (WINGS PRESS 2018), with photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay.
Authors Tom Franklin, an associate professor of fiction writing, and Beth Ann Fennelly, a professor of English and poet laureate of Mississippi.
photo by Andy Anderson
photo by Andy Anderson
Country Dark (GROVE ATLANTIC 2018)—a fierce noir-inflected novel about a good man pushed by circumstance into crime—is the latest book by Chris Offutt, an associate professor of English and screenwriting.
Photo by Melissa Ginsburg
Photo by Melissa Ginsburg
Jan Verberkmoes, who graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing Program, has accepted a fellowship from the Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute on “Transforming Environments in Europe and North America: Narratives, Histories, Cultures.”
MFA faculty (LtoR): Melissa Ginsburg, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, Derrick Harriell, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Kiese Laymon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Chris Offutt, & Matt Bondurant
Visiting Poet Ross Gay with Mississippi MFA students: Nadia Alexis, Amy Lam, Sarah Sgro (alum), and Joshua Nguyen
