Desire Museum, the third poetry collection from Danielle Cadena Deulen, MFA ’05, has recently been named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry—the latest of many awards she's earned for her work as both a poet and a memoirist. Her first collection, Lovely Asunder, published in ...
When Rebecca Burke, MFA ’21, was younger, she knew there was something critical missing from the literary world. Being the only person she knew with vision impairment, Burke looked to books to find community among those who also identified as disabled, and was disheartened to find very little on libr...
Stillhouse Press, Mason’s student- and alumni-run craft press, published its first anthology November 1: In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers, edited by Rebecca Burke, MFA ’21. In addition to being the first anthology published by Stillhouse, In Between Spaces is also a milestone colle...
We are all capable of extraordinary things. This message, conveyed brilliantly in Latif Askia Ba’s collection of poetry, The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, touches on more than just human ambition. Built upon his own lived experience with Choreic Cerebral Palsy, Ba explores topics such as self...
2019 Spring Writing Contests 2019 Spring Writing Contest Winners Contest Judges: Contest judges are selected and announced ahead of the submission deadline each year. Judges are selected and invited to participate each year by the creative writing director. In 2019, the judges are as follows: Ma...
When I first met Latif Askia Ba, he was reading at a Zoom poetry event—a common occurrence during the early stages of the Covid outbreak—and his screen was off. Though I didn’t understand why this was at the time, I could still hear his voice. He read two or three poems, but I remember the way in whi...
Congratulations to Stephanie Arhin (MFA '17) who is the new Recruitment and Diversity Program Manager for the Federal Railroad Administration. Arhin spoke with our Graduate Admissions Coordinator Holly Mason Badra (MFA '17) about her journey. What has your career trajectory been like po...
