MFA News & Events
Brandon Lamson Selected as 2016 Summer Poet in Residence
Brandon Dean Lamson teaches literature and creative writing in the Honors College at the University of Houston. His first book, Starship Tahiti, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Many of the poems in the collection are based on his experience of teaching inmates on Rikers Island. […]
Check out current MFA Jason Harrington in the New York Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/magazine/chi-raq-and-the-myth-of-chicago-gang-wars.html?_r=1
MFA alum Anya Groner’s essay for the “Modern Love” section of the New York Times
Click HERE for Anya’s essay.
Alum Rachel Smith’s “object lesson” essay for The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/americas-immortal-cereal/388991/
It is with great joy that we announce the 2016-2017 Grisham Writer-in-Residence: Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award; At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publishers Book Awards, all from Tupelo Press. With Ross Gay, she co-authored […]
Sarafest, Saturday, September 19th, 12p.m. at The Powerhouse
Sat. Sept. 19: noon, The Powerhouse. The MFA Program partners with Sarah Isom Center for Gender Studies to present one of the events of Sarahfest, a music and culture festival. Former Grisham Writer-in-Residence Megan Abbott joins former Mekon guitarist Jon Langford for a panel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Langfordhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Langford
MFA alumnus: Anne Corbitt’s novel *RULES FOR LYING* just won the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel and will be published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.
MFA alumnus: Anne Corbitt’s novel RULES FOR LYING just won the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel and is going to be published by Southeast Missouri State University Press, to come out next fall (2016).