MFA in Writing News
The Books of 2023The latest additions to 凯旋门官网鈥檚 rich literary history have hit bookstore shelves. Their authors join 凯旋门官网 notables, including Donna Tartt '86, Kiran Desai '93, Michael Pollan '76, 鈥婣nn Goldstein '71, Ana茂s Duplan '14, Anne Waldman '66, Cynthia Sweeney MFA '13, Jamie Quatro MFA '09, Amy Gerstler '01, Morgan Jerkins MFA '16, and Charles Bock '97.
Jason Sebastian Russo Selected as Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing SeminarsJason Sebastian Russo, an MFA student in fiction and poetry, has been selected to be the twelfth Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars.
鈥淲riting is the Last Thing I Do鈥: 5 Questions for Hugh RyanBy Craig Morgan Teicher
Hugh Ryan graduated from the 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars in 2009 and went on to publish two acclaimed books of nonfiction, When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) and The Women鈥檚 House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction and the Warren Johansson Award. He has taught nonfiction at the Writing Seminars since 2022, and just sold his next book, Becoming History, a memoir in essays. He talked with me about turning research into writing and falling back in love with the essay.
Etan Kerr-Finell Selected as Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing SeminarsEtan Kerr-Finell, a fourth term MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the eleventh Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars.
Sarah Zoric Selected as Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing SeminarsSarah Zoric, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the tenth Residential Teaching Fellow at 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars.