Program News
Journalist Patrick D. Rosso recently profiled the Write on the DOT Reading Series for Boston.com. Write on the DOT was created by UMass Boston Creative Writing MFAs to help bring together UMass Boston and Dorchester writers. The full article can be read here . Visit Write on the DOT for full details on the series.
Fall 2012
Author Fanny Howe will be joining UMB's Creative Writing Program in Fall 2012 as our inaugural Visiting Writer. She is an internationally respected literary figure who is widely regarded as one of the most important American women of letters of our time. She has published twelve works of fiction, and over twenty volumes of poetry, as well as six books for young adults, and two books of memoir. Her countless awards include the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, given annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living US poet for a lifetime’s accomplishment, as well as the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize awarded annually by the Nation Magazine honoring an artist whose work supports “the arts and the cause of world peace.” Buffalo-born and Cambridge-raised Howe is also a noted civil rights activist whose novels, according to critic Joshua Glenn “about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and 70s.” Her accomplishments in every genre, coupled with a lifetime’s dedication to social activism, make her singularly appropriate for UMass Boston.
