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Two MFAs honored in 2019 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest
Apr. 20, 2019—Two current MFA students have been chosen by judge Cathy Park Hong in the 2019 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest at Vanderbilt. Carlina Duan, M.F.A. ’19, was chosen as the the contest winner for her poem “Do You Have a Grammatically Correct Response to the Question?” Maria Isabelle...
April 20: Graduating MFA Student Reading
Apr. 20, 2018—7:00 p.m., April 20, Buttrick Hall 101 Join us for a reading by five members of the MFA class of 2018. Poets: Stephanie Davis, Cydnee Devereaux, and Sophia Stid. Fiction writers: Carla Diaz and Alina Grabowski. Sponsored by the Department of English
Lorrie Moore publishes new book of nonfiction
Mar. 29, 2018—Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Lorrie Moore, the author of three novels and four collections of short stories, published a new collection of essays and reviews coming on April 3, from Penguin Random House. The collection, See What Can Be Done, is Moore’s first book of nonfiction. Moore has received several honors for her work,...
Joy Castro comes to Vanderbilt as visiting writer
Mar. 14, 2018—Every spring, the Vanderbilt Creative Writing program brings a distinguished author to campus as a visiting writer. This spring, Joy Castro is our visiting writer in nonfiction. Born in Miami, raised in England and West Virginia, and educated in Texas, Joy Castro is the award-winning author of two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans,...
Vanderbilt Creative Writing at AWP ’18
Mar. 1, 2018—Several faculty, students, and alumni of our Creative Writing MFA program will be speaking on panels or reading from their work at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Tampa, Florida this year. Here’s what’s on our calendar: WEDNESDAY (3/7): MFA Students: Vanderbilt/UTK Joint AWP Reading 8:00 pm @ The Refinery, 5910 North Florida...
Alum Matthew Baker publishes collection, signs film deal with Netflix
Feb. 22, 2018—Hybrid Creatures, a new story collection by Matthew Baker, MFA ’12, came out on February 19 from LSU Press. Less than a week later, Baker signed a lucrative deal with Netflix and director Matt Reeves to produce his short story “Life Sentence” as a film. Matthew Baker is author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures and the...
Tiana Clark, MFA ’17, wins Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
Feb. 21, 2018—MFA graduate Tiana Clark has won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her forthcoming debut poetry collection I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Fall 2018, University of Pittsburgh Press). The prize is awarded to one first full-length collection of poems each year. Tiana Clark is the author of Equilibrium, selected by Afaa...