I am currently in my fourth semester at my MFA program, and for fun, I…
Category: Fleeing the Ivory Tower
As part of my MFA funding, I teach composition and a breakout creative writing workshop.…
National news outlets have been touting the rise in sales of George Orwell’s 1984. My…
Over the years, I’ve been embarrassed about my top ten favorite books, particularly the top…
My junior year in undergrad, a British Literature professor handed me Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Published…
In the spring, my graduate program brought in a well-known short story writer and novelist…
Last semester, I had a conversation with a professor who, after expressing her dislike of…
Writers have argued and continue to argue over the term “speculative fiction.” I first used…
While not in vogue, Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces still gets tossed…
The Ivory Tower sounds like a place straight out of Narnia or a Robin Hobb…