BU Creative Writing

Tara Skurtu (Poetry 2013) is a 2013 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow (part of the BU MFA program); she is currently spending her global fellow semester in Romania. The Romanian poet and scholar Radu Vancu has just invited Tara to be an official author (and read poems) at the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu, Romania, September […]

Great news for Kimberly Elkins (2010): Kimberly was a teaching fellow this summer at both the Wesleyan Writers Conference and at the Sewanee Writers Conference. Also, her story “Boys with Wings” has just been published in Slice Magazine, in an issue featuring Rick Moody and Francine Prose. Kimberly recently read this story at a Slice […]

Caitlin Doyle (Poetry 2008) continues to garner accolades as an emerging poet. Her work has recently been the subject of an essay entitled “Doyle & The Ersatz Life,” written by the poet and critic Michelle Lewis. In her examination of Caitlin’s poetry, Lewis writes: “Much has been made of her work with rhyme and wordplay, […]

Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011)’s poem “Compression Wood” has been published in The Cortland Review. You can read the poem here as well as listen to Lisa read it aloud. Congratulations, Lisa! Lisa Hiton received her MFA in poetry from Boston University in 2011. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, […]

It’s been a productive summer for Mimi Lipson (Fiction 2012). Her story “The Cloud of Unknowing” was published in the summer issue of BOMB; “Moscow 1968” appeared in the summer issue of Witness; and her story “Mothra” was published in the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Full-text versions of all three of those stories […]