Alumni News

Dong Li, author of The Orange Tree and inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, closes the Creative Writing Program's Spring Visiting Writers Series.

Robbie Maakestad, MFA ’17, has launched a Creative Writing M.A. program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California.

Lawrence Weschler, longtime New Yorker staff writer and author of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, speaks in Fenwick Library as part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.

Danielle Badra, MFA ’17, has been named Fairfax Poet Laureate by ArtsFairfax, a two-year position serving Fairfax County, Virginia.

Congratulations to Stephanie Arhin (MFA '17) who is the new Recruitment and Diversity Program Manager for the Federal Railroad Administration.

Novelist, playwright, and songwriter Jeff Jackson shares selections from his writing and talks with Mason creative writing professor Courtney Brkic about his work as part of the Spring 2022 Visiting Writers Series.

Kelli Jo Ford, MFA '07, has earned a 2022 literary fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.

The New York Times praises Champaneri's The City of Good Death.

White's debut novel Hell Followed With Us will appear in Summer 2022.

Sofia Puente-Lay, MFA '20, won the fiction category of Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest.