Category: Memoir Publications

Laura Marris to Publish Book with Graywolf

October 4, 2021 at 12:16 PM

Boston University Creative Writing alum and former Favorite Poem Project Director Laura Marris’s (poetry ’13) book The Age of Loneliness has been picked up by Graywolf. The book is a series of essays that explore loneliness through both personal and ecological lenses. The book pays great attention to where these perspectives overlap, illuminating the losses experienced […]

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Stacy Mattingly publishes essay in Off Assignment

May 20, 2021 at 4:19 PM

Stacy Mattingly (Fiction ’11) published a moving essay about a bit of family history in Off Assignment.  The essay, called “To the Spy I’m Named For,” is part of the excellent “Letter to a Stranger” column.  Read it here! Off Assignment had this to say about the piece: R was a spy, a diplomat from Mississippi, a CIA man in […]

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Nell Stevens’ memoir to be published by Picador, among others

October 29, 2015 at 4:54 PM

We’re thrilled to announce that Nell Stevens (Fiction 2013) has sold her book to Picador in the UK, Doubleday in the US, and Knopf in Canada!  The book, called Bleaker House, is part memoir, part travelogue, and part short story collection.  It documents Nell’s time in the Falklands as she desperately tries–and fails–to write a novel, navigates intense loneliness, and comes […]

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Jessica Ullian publishes essay in BuzzFeed Books

July 29, 2015 at 10:08 AM

Jessica Ulliam (fiction ’09) has recently published a moving and insightful essay about the struggles of being both a parent and a writer.  Here’s an excerpt: I write from this place of forced calm because the alternative is not to write at all. I could accept that the free-spirited imagination I once had has been forever subsumed […]

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Qais Akbar Omar interviewed by The Economist

June 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Qais Akbar Omar (Fiction, 2015) is interviewed today at The Economist’s Prospero literary blog. From the interview: WHEN the Taliban were forced out of Kabul in 2001, life began once again for Qais Akbar Omar. He helped rebuild the family carpet business, became an interpreter for the United Nations, worked on a Dari-language production of […]

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