MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING
This year's GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES is shaping up to be spectacular!
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:00pm, UMass Boston, Wheatley Building, 6th Floor, Room 047: Local poet Teresa Cader will read from her most recent book: History of Hurricanes: Poems. Teresa Cader is on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Lesley University and has taught at Emerson College, M.I.T., and UMass Boston. Her work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Harvard Review, Slate, and TriQuarterly. History of Hurricanes: Poems is Teresa's third collection of poetry. Her previous books include Guests, which was awarded the Norma Faber First Book Award by the Poetry Society of America, and The Paper Wasp, also published by Northwestern.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 1:00pm at the UMass Boston Bookstore: The Washington Post reports that “If good writing is like a good suit—durable, seamless and decidedly non-flashy—then . . . Lewis Robinson [is a] master tailor. . .skilled at observing what makes people tick and what makes them trip..." Lewis Robinson is the author or the novel Water Dogs and the short story collection Officer Friendly: and Other Stories. Robinson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine.
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 12:00pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3550 (Ballroom C) : Award winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri will be on campus to read from her work. Her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction as well as the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. Jhumpa Lahiri was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Her works include the novel The Namesake (2003) and most recently, Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (2008).
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:00pm, UMass Boston Bookstore: Award winning poet Poet Robert Polito will join us to read from his latest book of poetry: Hollywood & God (2009). Robert is currently the Director of Writing Programs and a Professor of Writing at the New School in NYC. His works include Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar; Doubles (a book of poems); A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover; and At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry. Robert has also edited multiple books of poetry and anthologies and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The LA Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, PEN America, Ploughshares, New York Times Book Review, and AGNI, among other magazines. Robert Polito is also the Founder of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Len and Louise Riggio Writing & Democracy Program.
COMING SPRING 2010: Writer Jennifer Haigh
Photo by Asia Kepka
For the Spring 2010 Semester we are please to welcome visiting writer Jennifer Haigh. Ms. Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year; and most recently, The Condition (2008). Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. Jennifer Haigh will be teaching two courses, (ENGL682) Advanced Fiction Workshop and (CW697) Special Topics in Creative Writing: Short Story Revision Workshop.
Mark your calendar for the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Showcase!
It's a great way to check out ALL the Graduate Programs offered at UMB and to speak with representatives and students from each program as well. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 from 4:00 - 7:30pm in the Campus Center Ballroom.