Vivek Narayanan was born in India to Tamil parents and grew up in Zambia. He earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and a master’s in creative writing from Boston University. He has taught at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and in the mid-2000s worked at Sarai-CS...
Helon Habila's current book is The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria, a nonfiction investigation into the kidnapping of 276 girls in Nigeria by Islamist militants in 2014. His first novel, Waiting for an Angel, has been translated into many langauges including...
Scott W. Berg is an author, journalist, and professor of nonfiction writing. He has published three books of narrative history--Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C., and 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Fronti...
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and The War for a City’s Soul, the latest book from English Professor Scott Berg, MFA ’97, was released on September 26 by Pantheon Publishing. The new book landed a feature review in the October 2 issue of The New Yorker. A few weeks later, The Bu...
The English Department proudly introduces Peter Streckfus as its newest full-time faculty member in Creative Writing, Poetry. Join us in welcoming him (back) to Mason. Tell us a bit about your new book. Errings is mostly composed of apostrophes, poems in which the speaker turns away from the wor...
