Alumni News

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.

MFA alum Rion Amilcar Scott's story "Shape-up at Delilah's" appears in the October 7, 2019 issue.

Congratulations to Art Taylor, associate professor and assistant director of the Creative Writing Program, on winning the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his short story “English 398: Fiction Workshop."

The New Yorker calls it "Diorama-like, this book displays what has been, in American culture, displayed, and thereby displaced. It is at once a natural history of American racism and colonialism, utterly devastating in its cumulative impact, and a gorgeous mash-up of genres and forms: bold, light, and ruthlessly smart."

"The City of Good Death is an expansive novel about the proprietor of a death hostel, Pramesh, in India’s sacred city of Benares, where Hindus come to die a holy death, and the sweeping journey of discovery he embarks upon after finding his cousin and childhood best friend drowned in the Ganges. Priyanka Champaneri beautifully explores the sacred and the afterlife in this cinematic and emotionally gripping work about living and dying with dignity."