Fiction faculty search
One of the cool things about the Pitt MFA program is that grad students get to participate in the search process when the University is out to hire a new…
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MFA meets Hollywood
I don’t know Stephanie Lord, but she’s an MFA student here at Pitt. This fall she won a Don and Gee Nicholls Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
What do MFA students read?
So we’re sitting in class tonight and our teacher asks something like, How do you find the fiction that you read? First, the class says _nothing_. This isn’t unusual, though….
smart jargon is still jargon
Later this month my film class will be ending early so we can attend a vital lecture: “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Reproductive Heteronormativity” Oh, that wicked, wicked…
Hello hello hi
It’s fun city here in Pittsburgh (don’t tell Sienna Miller, we don’t want her hanging around). Anyway, not only did the MFA students pick the name for the new Pitt…
Miss Otis Regrets
Due to a combination of school responsibilities and some possibly ill-timed structural blog shenanigans, I am quiet. I will be, for a short while, quiet. If you have something to…
On the yellow brick MFA road
Last night was Readings in Contemporary Fiction. This is my favorite grad school class, because we get to read new(ish) books and then talk about them as writers. Our professor*…
the tripbooks
When I was a not-writer, just a kid with a bad attitude, OK hair and a baggy t-shirt, I hung out with a bunch of writers. Poets, mostly. They lived…
Pitt MFAs get cracking
Last night the ritual of having first-year MFA students read our work in public began, and I wouldn’t consider it hazing but for the loud Steelers fans on the floor…
The first day
When I went to the first class of my MFA degree I was surprised to find that the professor spent a lot of time focusing on Thich Nhat Hanh, a…
