BU Creative Writing

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, Versal, Smokelong Quarterly, the 2River View, and The Florida Book Review. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and included in a number of poetry anthologies. Dariel has taught creative writing at the Boston Arts Academy and Boston University. He lives in Boston with his wife, where he's at work on a collection of stories set in Cuba, as well as a novel.

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 appeared in more than 50 newspapers and magazines, including (links are to her articles) The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, MORE, Shape, Fit Pregnancy, Self, VIV Mag, and O, The Oprah Magazine.

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.

We're pleased to announce that Jessica Lott (Fiction 2004)'s novel THE REST OF US will be published by Simon & Schuster in the summer 2013.

Jessica won the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award at Boston University and has an MA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis (2002). Her first book, the novella Osin (that she wrote for Ha Jin's novella class at BU) won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award, judged by Aimee Bender, and was published in 2007.

Jessica began writing THE REST OF US the fall after graduating, and it took her about 6 years to write. She also writes about art and has an upcoming monthly column for the PBS-affiliate Art 21 (starting this month). She co-runs the fiction performance series in NYC, Liars' League NYC.

Congratulations, Jessica!