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Lesley’s Creative Writing MFA program boasts some very accomplished alums, including Saraciea J. Fennell, whose work reaches beyond the page to an extent that she was recently immortalized in a Bronx Legends mural in New York. In June, […]
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Julie Lam discusses her life as an artist, activist and citizen of the world, and how she’s been using her writing skills to advocate for mask wearing and safety precautions to protect against COVID-19. Read on to learn […]
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Fiction alum Mina Athanassious sits down with his former mentor, MFA Writing Faculty in Fiction Rachel Kadish, to talk about changing careers, his unexpected acceptance into the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program, and how the program helped […]
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Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) has an essay in LitHub, “The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned.” A.J. Verdelle (Fiction, MFA Faculty) has an excerpt from her new literary memoir Miss Chloe: A Memoir of […]
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Often, the path to writing isn’t a straight-forward one. Such is the case with Amber Wong, who started writing towards the end of a long career in environmental engineering. Read on to learn about her experience of writing […]
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AJ Verdelle (Fiction, MFA Faculty) is pleased to announce that her new book Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison is now available for preorder. Adrian Matejka (Poetry, MFA Faculty) has been named the […]
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July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013) is featured on the Lesley University Why We Write podcast in “July Westhale Goes to the Moon’s Moon.” Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) is interviewed in The Picture Book Buzz about her forthcoming […]
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Alum Amy Jenness (Nonfiction, January 2021) interviews her former mentor Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Comics & Graphic Novels, MFA Writing Faculty) about Pam’s 2021 memoir, The Long Field: A Memoir, Wales, and the Presence of Absence.
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KB Ballentine (Poetry, June 2007) has two poems, “Something Sacred” and “Blessing of the Birds,” in the new anthology I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Rosalind Kaplan (Nonfiction, June 2020) has […]
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Wrapping up our interviews for Women’s History Month is WFYP alum Jasmine Warga! Jasmine talks to us about winning the the 2020 John Newbery Honor for Other Words For Home, the inspiration behind her upcoming novel, A Rover’s Story, […]