Alumni News

New Book from Scott Berg

New Book from Scott Berg

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and The War for a City’s Soul, the latest book from English Professor Scott Berg, MFA ’97, was released September 26 by Pantheon Publishing.

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MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA poetry student Arpita Roy has been selected as the winner of the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry for the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. For this highly competitive award, she was chosen out of a pool of 2,500 applicants.

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Stillhouse Press Author Published in Poetry Magazine

Stillhouse Press Author Published in Poetry Magazine

MFA alumnus and former Watershed Lit GPA Tommy Sheffield (Poetry, '21) met poet Latif Askia Ba, acquired and helped develop his book project, and successfully published The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon in 2022 under the Stillhouse Press imprint. Ba had two poems published in the June 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.

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