Science Fiction as Social Activism

Alumni News, Thoughts and Musings

by Chana Porter There is a TV show called Orphan Black which follows a woman as she discovers that she has many identical clones all over the world, the intentional orphans of a top secret genetics project. I’m most interested in Orphan Black as an exercise in...

Victoria Nelson in London

Faculty News, Thoughts and Musings

Victoria Nelson is in London this month!… Read her London Postcard: I am in London this month, staying in a spacious flat with dodgy plumbing in the Marylebone district of central London (this is the old station, not the flat): The weather has been gorgeous,...

Christine Kalafus: Storyteller

Alumni News, News Flash

MFAW-VT student Christine Kalafus has been participating in storytelling events, like The Moth, broadcast on NPR and The MOuTH through the Mark Twain House in Hartford. In part because of her participation in these activities, she was recently selected to be a...

SWALE

announcements, Faculty News, News Flash

I groomed a Derby horse in 1984 named Swale and he won the race, too.  And then years later I learned how to write prose through a book I stayed with called “Track Conditions” which was published in 1993, I think.  Sometimes Swale comes back in poems....