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It’s a great joy, as the year comes to a close, to look back on all of the accomplishments of the Lesley MFA community from the past twelve months. The End-of Year Celebration and Gift Guide is becoming […]
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Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) is interviewed on the podcast The High Life with Ricki Lake in an episode called “You Got a Divorce? Congrats!” Lyz discusses her book This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and […]
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Ọna Anosike talks about her experience at Lesley University’s MFA program in creative writing, the many sources of inspiration for her fiction, and the work and passion that goes into setting up and running a literary journal. ỌNA […]
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Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA faculty) has had a busy month. First, he was awarded a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship. He also announced that he is founding Heirloom Literary & Media, a new literary agency. He appeared on The Daily […]
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Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) has a new podcast It’s a Poetic Life w/Enzo the Poet up on Spotify. He is also offering poetry consultations through his website and a Masterclass for beginner poets. Caitlin Krause (Poetry, June, […]
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The swelter of August may be easing soon, but Lesley alums are maintaining a torrid pace of achievement! Check their out new publications, interviews, and more: Jasmine Warga’s (WFYP, June 2013) novel, A Rover’s Story, was highlighted by Publishers Weekly as one […]
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Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) is interviewed about writing, reading, and recent works in the “First Draft” column of The Republic. Hurley Winkler (Fiction, January 2017) is interviewed about “the magic of creative community” in The Honeycomb. Julie […]
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Sabrina Fedel shares her experiences writing about other cultures and going from a small press to a big publishing house, and touches on some of the themes in her new YA novel, All Roads Lead to Rome, including […]
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Jacqueline Berkman (Fiction, June 2023) has a short story “The Mechanical Bull” in the Summer 2024 issue of The Coachella Review. Tony Eprile (Fiction, MFA faculty) has an essay “Bards Behind Bars: Reading Sartre Aloud Inside a Maximum-Security […]
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Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021) has been longlisted for the Mass Book Awards for her queer middle-grade novel-in-verse The Song of Us, which was also listed in the Amazon 2024 Best Children’s Books of the Year, ages 12-14. […]