Category: Alumni

Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women

July 30, 2019 at 10:08 AM

We’re so psyched for Lisa Taddeo (Fiction ’17) whose scintillating book, Three Women, debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list a couple weeks ago! Lisa will be reading from the book tonight at Harvard Book Store at 7 pm.  Despite being on book tour, she took the time to speak with us about the book. How […]

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Mimi Lipson publishes essay in Massachusetts Review

June 25, 2019 at 11:26 AM

We’re really pleased to share this unflinchingly honest and moving essay by Mimi Lipson.  The essay, about Mimi’s brother, is called “Tornado” and was published recently in the Massachusetts Review. About writing the essay, Mimi says: I usually avoid thinking about writing in terms of catharsis, but working on this really did help me to resolve some things. […]

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Featured alumnus: Jean Charbonneau

June 21, 2019 at 3:07 PM

This week, we’re excited to feature Jean Charbonneau, an alumnus of our program from 1998!  Jean was born in Montreal, and studied creative writing at Harvard Extension School and the University of Southern Mississippi before getting his MA in creative writing from BU. He freelanced as a book critic for a few years, and wrote for […]

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Katherine Hollander wins Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

April 19, 2019 at 4:29 PM

We’re so excited for Kate Hollander, who recently won the 14th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for her collection My German Dictionary!  Waywiser Press will publish the book this fall, when Kate will read alongside Charles Wright at the Shakespeare Folger Library. Please click here to read two poems from My German Dictionary.  Below, Kate took […]

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Neshat Khan wins Boston Review short story contest

April 5, 2019 at 1:33 PM

We’re so proud to announce that Neshat Khan (GRS ’18) recently won the Aura Estrada fiction prize (Boston Review) for her story “The Neighbors”!  The story was chosen by Alexander Chee, which he describes as “the story of two women figuring out the nature of a desire they don’t have words for, inventing a world […]

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Jordan Coriza publishes story in the Bare Life Review

April 4, 2019 at 4:06 PM

Great news from Jordan Coriza (Fiction ’08), who recently published a story in the Bare Life Review, a journal dedicated to immigrant and refugee writers! The story is a fictionalized account of Jordan’s early days in the US. He says, Largely based on my own immigrant experience, “Shine” tells the story of a young man who’s […]

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Class of 2018 Poets Publish Anthology

March 26, 2019 at 4:04 PM

Last year’s MFA poetry class was a particularly tightknit group, the kind that rooted for each other and hung out together both in and out of the classroom.  In addition to workshops every week, they could often be found having lunch and doing yoga in room 222!  The poets decided to put together a book of […]

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Megan Collins publishes debut novel

February 11, 2019 at 11:39 AM

We are so excited to announce that Megan Collins (Poetry ’08) has published her debut novel, The Winter Sister!  The book was released last week, and has already been a hit with reviewers and readers alike.  A contemporary suspense novel inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone, it begins sixteen years ago, when Sylvie’s sister Persephone didn’t […]

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Rebecca Levi wins Mick Imlah award

January 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM

We’re so proud of Rebecca Levi (Poetry ’18) who recently won third place in the Mick Imlah Poetry Prize!  The winning poem is called “December 31st” and was published in The Times Literary Supplement. Rebecca says: The thing about living in Colombia is that poems happen to you all the time. On December 31, 2017, they really did slaughter […]

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Dariel Suarez publishes story collection

January 23, 2019 at 3:06 PM

We’re so happy to share that Dariel Suarez’s story collection, A Kind of Solitude, is available for pre-order!  The book has received glowing reviews, and even made it onto the Kenyon Review’s Holiday Recommended Reading list. In addition, Red Hen Press will be publishing Dariel’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House!  We’re looking forward to hearing more details about that […]

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