Alumni News

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.

Rajpreet Heir, MFA '16, is starting this fall 2020 in as a tenure-track assistant professor in Creative Nonfiction at Ithaca College.

Danielle Badra, MFA '17, has won the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection, Like We Still Speak.

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