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2021 Summer Residency
This year we had another successful summer residency. We welcomed some proclaimed authors, Leslie Jamison, Patricia Smith, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. We were honored to have our visiting writers join us and share their readings with us. We also had readings from our faculty and students during our annual open mic nights. After our rigorous two week session, we had our ceremony for our graduating seniors.
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Faculty News
Follow @ashlandmfa on Twitter and Instagram and the Ashland University MFA Program Facebook page for regular updates about our faculty, staff, alumni, and students.
Naomi J Williams
Fiction Faculty
Faculty member Naomi J. Williams and fiction alum Sophie Rehm (MFA '18) were nominated for Best of the Net by Mom Egg Review. Williams' flash fiction "No Doors" and Rehm's essay "Am I a Mother I Am" appeared in the "Range of Motherhood" folio curated by fiction alum Joline Scott (MFA '18).
Edan Lepucki
Fiction Faculty
Edan Lepucki has officially joined the Ashland University MFA faculty team! Lepucki is the New York Time's best selling author of California and Woman No.17.
Brian Conn
Fiction Faculty
Conn published his piece, The Bartleby Virus, on the Rupture blog. It can be found at https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/the-bartleby-virus!
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Poetry Faculty
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo has a memoir workshop in progress. the classes started October 21st and will go until August 4th. There are 21 sessions total in the workshop and writers will have the opportunity to workshop 300 pages with Castillo.
Dexter Booth
Poetry Faculty
Dexter recently released his book, Abracadabra, Sunshine! Find it here: https://redhenpress.org/products/abracadabra-sunshine-by-dexter-l-booth
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Book Store
Do not forget to visit the MFA's bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/shop/ashlandmfa. We have various books all written by our faculty, visiting writers, and alumni.
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Black Fork Review
Black Fork Review newest issue was released November 22nd!
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Student Spotlight
Whitney Vale's essay, Once Upon a Time, was published in The Rumpus under their ENOUGH series. The ENOUGH series is dedicated to work by women, trans, or non-binary writers and artist. The writers and artists work must center around rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence. https://therumpus.net/2021/10/enough-once-upon-a-time/
Kristi Schirtzinger's shorty story titled Above Ground will come out in January in Drunk Monkeys. https://www.drunkmonkeys.us/
Knorr Jeff has a book, Fire Season, coming out in the late summer of 2022.
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