BU Creative Writing

Since we last checked in with Sasenarine Persaud (Fiction 2006), there have been a few additional reviews/notices of his recent book of poems, Lantana Strangling Ixora, in publications such as Asiatic, Bostonia, Muse India, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, and the Guyana Times. Sase has just published another book, Unclosed Entrances: Selected Poems, with Guyana Classics Library. The launch was covered by the press in […]

We are pleased to announce that Ted Kehoe’s story “Tiger in the Glass” has been published in the Fall 2012 issue of Prairie Schooner. You can purchase the issue here. Ted is a 2006 graduate of our fiction program. Photo credit: The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin

Dariel Suarez, who will graduate from our fiction program later this month, has had a story published in the recently revised Collier’s Magazine. His story, “Possessed,” is available online and in print. Congratulations, Dariel! Dariel was born in Havana, Cuba, where he resided until 1997. Dariel’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including Gargoyle, […]

Alice Lesch Kelly (Fiction 1990)’s upcoming book, Healthy Mom Healthy Baby, will be published by HarperOne in January 2013. Congratulations, Alice! Since receiving her MFA in Fiction from BU, Alice has been writing nonfiction, mostly about health for magazines and books. She teaches creative nonfiction writing to undergraduates at Emerson College in Boston. Her articles have […]

Belated news (we apologize!) about Zayd Dohrn (Playwriting 2000): He has won the Writers’ Guild of America East’s Pilot Competition and had a reading of his TV Pilot “Brawler” performed in New York in May 2012. Recently Zayd and his wife, our own Rachel DeWoskin (Poetry 2000), headlined 826michigan’s Storymakers Dinner in Ann Arbor.