MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has published a response to Lionel Shriver's recent attack on Penguin/Random House UK's push for diversity online at Medium. The piece is called "The Exclusivity of Inclusion: On Disability and Diversity" In the article he quotes...
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s article on the Supreme Court decision travel ban, which is expected this month, and Hawaii’s history in resisting the US government’s racist exclusionary policies during World War II has been published on Salon. Here's a...
Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s essay on the shape of trauma in our writing is featured on Electric Literature from the essay: "I started writing my second novel in the aftermath of violence. In a more-common-than-you-think incident — one that is often...
Victoria Nelson’s Best Reviewed Book of the Week
MFAW-WA faculty member Victoria Nelson's New York Review Books edition of Robert Aickman's story collection, Compulsory Games, with reviews in the New Yorker, Washington Post, and elsewhere, made the Lit Hub/Bookmarks "Best Reviewed Books of the Week" list. Robert...
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil's work--Ban/blog/banners--is to be featured in Art Basel. Constituting the final in a series of five exhibitions organized by New York-based curator Harry Burke for The Printed Room since 2015, each of which survey different...
Listen in on Kenny Fries’ interview on Ethereal
MFAW-VT Faculty member Kenny Fries stopped by Ethereal to talk about hi new book In The Province of the Gods, among many other things. The podcast is here.
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin Interview
The Creative Independent, “a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people,” featured MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin in their Sunday Edition Interview. Here is a taste: "My book began its life as a dissertation. My approach was...
MFAW Faculty Member Richard Panek Moderates at the World Science Festival in June
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek will be moderating the Science and Story Cafe at this year's World Science Festival. The Cafe, a daylong series of discussions with the authors of eight new books, will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, at New York...
Creative Writing Faculty Anthology, “Alchemy of the Word” News from Kenny Fries
We’re pleased to announce that Los Angeles Review of Books has posted a selection by Kenny Fries from the new edition of our Goddard MFA in Creative Writing faculty anthology, Alchemy of the Word. The book is available from the publisher website, GenPop Books or...
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bea Gates Goes Local
MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates has two poems, "Chaco Canyon" and "My mother lately," in the current issue of her local paper, The Weekly Packet, published by Penobscot Bay Press for the Blue Hill Peninsula.