Alumni News

Jessica Anthony's Enter the Aardvark and Kelli Jo Ford's Crooked Hallelujah earn accolades in the nation's leading newspaper.

Poetry Professor Eric Pankey and MFA alum Madeleine Wattenburg earn award recognition with new works forthcoming.

Sam Ashworth, MFA ’18, wrote the cover story for the Washington Post Magazine, March 1, 2020: "The Beautiful Art of Hassling Politicians While Wearing Animal Costumes."

John Copenhaver talks about his debut novel, Dodging and Burning, and the many literary organizations he has been involved with, including crime mystery reviews for Lambda Literary.

Stephanie Liberatore's "Like New Professor, Like Mom" appears in Inside Higher Ed.

Lisa Ampleman's new collection explores the tradition of courtly love, from medieval times to the modern day.

At Eater, MFA alum Sam Ashworth looks at two decades in the career of Rocco DiSpirito from NBC's "The Restaurant."

On November 16, 2019, Marstellar Middle School in Bristow, Virginia, hosted the first of what is hoped-to-become an annual writing conference for teens interested in becoming better writers. The Write Turns conference is the brainchild of current George Mason University MFA student Heather Osial, an English teacher at Marstellar.