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The buzz around Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair '10 continues to grow. The book, while still unpublished, has already been recognized by the Prairie Schooner Book Prize as their 2015 winner. Now, Cannibal appears Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016." 

Alice Mattison, award-winning author and core faculty of the MFA Program, was interviewed by Sarai Walker MFA '03 in The Center for Fiction on "looking like a writer," and her new non-fiction guide for authors, The Kite and the String. 

Jeva Lange '15 published an opinion piece today in The Week which explores the difficulties that international students face after graduation.

Musician and faculty member Susie Ibarra is working with David Hertz, a Brazilian chef and a World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader, around the launch of Refettorio Gastromotiva, a food and cultural center that will repurpose 12 tons of food from the Olympics to turn it into nutritious meals for the neediest of Rio.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announced that Jeff Arnal MFA '00 has been appointed executive director. Arnal cofounded Free Range Asheville, a platform for performance, research, and discourse in 2015. He received his MFA in Music from ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College in 2000.