The MFA at FAU

  Paisley's workshop showed the science of poetics in a way that is usually unachievable outside of a Ph.D. The schooling in the traditi...

               A crude drawing of a warty pig was one of the oldest cave paintings discovered, “Dat[ing] back at least 45,500 years,” (Ferre...

 I did a lot of emotional preparing for my life after the MFA. Semi-dramatically, I grieved it long before I left, spending my final thesis ...

For a moment, accept this metaphor: books are gardens, their parts as seeds. Art as a seed in the mind to sprout on the page—some in a priva...

Isolation isn’t good for the human spirit. People are social creatures; we require & rely on the presence & emotion of others to cal...

  While writing workshops are a place to improve one’s writing, even the most experienced students can have a difficult time seeking progres...

My father calls four times a week, cheering me on from across the Atlantic as I write my way through an American MFA program. He’s on the ot...