MFAW-WA Faculty member Aimee Liu’s new novel Glorious Boy had a spectacular launch week, capped by its selection by Parade as a Best Beach Read of 2020 and by the NY Post as a Best Book of the Week.
Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy: News, Reviews and Pub Date all here!
Big things are happening for MFAW-WA Faculty Member Aimee Liu’s forthcoming novel Glorious Boy, which Publishers Weekly says “upends the clichés of the white savior narrative.” Join her celebrations and appearances as the novel launches tomorrow!
Aimee Liu in Ms. Magazine
MFAW Faculty member Aimee Liu talks about pandemic publishing and her new novel, Glorious Boy, in Ms. Magazine.
Windham Campbell Prize to Bhanu Kapil
Goddard MFAW faculty member Bhanu Kapil was a recipient of the Windham Campbell prize ($165,000 or £141,000) one of the highest literary honors in the world, which is awarded to highlight literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
Faculty member Kenny Fries speaks in Amsterdam and Berlin
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries was keynote speaker for “Our Voices: Navigating Identities in the Fulbright Program,” held recently at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. On Feb 13, he was part of a panel discussion called “Think Intersectional Anti-Semitism,“ held...
Faculty Member Aimee Liu is a Best Book Pick
MFAW-WA faculty member Aimee Liu is thrilled to announce that her forthcoming novel Glorious Boy has been selected as one of Good Housekeeping’s 20 Best Books of 2020.
Rave review for Born in East Berlin
MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez’s play, Born in East Berlin, just received a terrific review in The San Francisco Chronicle. The headline reads: “Springsteen is the spark, the footnotes the fire in Born in East Berlin.”
Richard Panek’s Scientific American Cover Story
MFAW faculty member Richard Panek wrote the cover story for the March 2020 issue of Scientific American: How a Dispute over a Single Number Became a Cosmological Crisis. “Two divergent measurements of how fast the universe is expanding cannot both be right. Something must give—but what?”
World Premiere of Born in East Berlin
MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez’s play, Born in East Berlin, has its World Premiere at the San Francisco Playhouse. The first performance was February 6th. If you are in the area, don’t miss it!
Bea Gates’ new book desire lines now published
MFAW faculty member Beatrix Gates’s new book, desire lines, is out in a letterpress limited edition from Artifact Press. desire lines, makes “a weathered map of memory and migration, forced and chosen, through seasons of change.”