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 MFA '03, author of the bestselling novel and critically-acclaimed AMC series , will be the Commencement speaker for the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars in June 2019. Walker is a graduate of the fiction program and will deliver the Commencement address on Saturday, June 22 at 7:30 pm in ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s Usdan Gallery.

Meet faculty member Manuel Gonzales, who is teaching Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as part of the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Early College Program. 

Ariél M. Martinez, an MFA student in nonfiction, has been selected to be the seventh Residential Teaching Fellow at the .

Kim Cooper, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the ninth Residential Teaching Fellow at . 

Nico Amador MFA '22, a second-term MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the fifth Residential Teaching Fellow at the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars.

Text for the 2020 Convocation Podcast speeches by Manuel Gonzales, Tonya Strong, and Flo Gill '22.

Jeanie Riess, a rising second-term MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the third Residential Teaching Fellow at the . The fellowship is the first of its kind in the country to offer full-time undergraduate teaching experience in a low-residency MFA format. Benefits include full tuition remission for one term, housing and board, and enrollment in an on-campus class.

Lisa Ann Cockrel, a third-term MFA candidate in nonfiction, has been selected as the first at the .