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Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Awarded Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor of English, recently recieved the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowhip award.

March 30, 2023
In Memoriam: Charles Kay Smith

We are profoundly sad to announce the death of our colleague Professor Charles Kay Smith, familiarly known as Kay. As a distinguished professor in the UMass Amherst English Department for 40 years, Kay engaged thousands of students, teaching writing and English literature, along with neotenic evolution and epicurean living.

March 27, 2023
Edie Meidav Chosen as Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellow

Edie Meidav has been selected as a fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to further her work by writing a book this summer. As part of the fellowship, she will spend one month on the 50-acre property located at the heart of Lake Como in Northern Italy.

March 24, 2023
Sabina Murray Publishes Collection: Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

Sabina Murray recently published Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, a story collection by by BlackCat/Grove.

March 23, 2023
Paperbark Featured in HFA News

Paperbark, the interdisciplinary print & digital magazine, steered largely by the English MFA program, was recently featured in HFA News. The piece includes an interview with Paperbark’s managing editor Evelyn Maguire, MFA ’23, and goes behind the scenes of the publication which focuses on the environment and ecologies, connecting art and science through poetry, prose, and visual art.

March 10, 2023
Martín Espada Awarded Emily Clark Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review

Martín Espada recently received the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) for the following poems:

March 9, 2023
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, MFA ‘23, Publishes Book: Drinking from Graveyard Wells

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, MFA '23, is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller), and her debut short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells was released today by University Press of Kentucky.

March 7, 2023
Jimmy Worthy II Publishes Book: After a Thousand Tears

Jimmy Worthy II has just published his first book, After a Thousand Tears, an edition of poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966), the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

March 3, 2023

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