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Kamila Shamsie (MFA'98) wins Britain's Women's Prize for Fiction
Friday, July 27, 2018
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to Islamic State, has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, acclaimed by...
Henk Rossouw's (MFA'11) new book length poem "Xamissa" published
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from...
Wendy Xu (MFA'14) interviewed in Literary Hub, March 27, 2018
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Read Wendy Xu's (MFA'14) interview with Literary Hub, on the Impossible Complexity of Immigrant Love, Peter Mischler in Conversation, March 27, 2018.
JoAnna Novak (MFA'14) is interviewed in Chicago Review of Books
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
JoAnna Novak (MFA'14) is interviewed in the Chicago Review of Books regarding her new book-length poem Noirmania (Inside the Castle, 2018). There also is a review of the book at The Millions.
Dorothea Lasky's (MFA'04) poem "Agatha" is the poem-of-the-day from the Academy of American Poets
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
On April 2, 2018, Dorothea Lasky (MFA'04) has the poem-of-the-day at the Academy of American Poets. The title of the poem is "Agatha." Read the poem here.
Reviews published of Dorothea Lasky's (MFA'04) new book of poetry, "Milk"
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Dorothea Lasky's (MFA'04) new book of poetry, Milk, is reviewed by The Arkansas International and The Literary Hub.