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

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,...

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...

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

Betsy Wheeler, Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute & the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, has been selected for the 2023 Chancellor’s Citation Award. This prestigious staff...

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...