News from the School of IAS
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
MFA Alum Eric Acosta Organizes Local Reading and Film Festival
Since completing his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, poet Eric Acosta (MFA 2020) has been engaged in fostering community among his cohort and within Seattle's vibrant literary and art scenes. Together with fellow alums Ashley Noelle (MFA 2020) and Reed Lowell (2019), he started a workshop to keep the conversation and feedback that are so central to the MFA experience flowing ...
March 29, 2022
Rebecca Brown interviewed in BOMB Magazine
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown is interviewed in a piece entitiled "Working Beyond the End," published by BOMB Magazine. The interview cover's Brown's new book, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe; themes that run through Brown's works, such as youth and innocence; Brown's treatment of characters; Brown's religious faith; and the need to have stories we can believe in. ...
March 28, 2022
MFA Alum Jessica Hagy publishes 3 books
The pandemic has been a busy time for prolific MFA alum Jessica Hagy (MFA 2018), who has seen 3 volumes come out in the last two years. In 2020, Tartarus Press published One Morning, a gothic novel Hagy wrote as her MFA thesis. One Morning tells the story of twelve hours in Gour Borough, Pennsylvania through the interwoven perspectives of twelve women who ...
March 24, 2022
MFA alumni and students selected as community performers in upcoming dance performance at Meany Hall
Members of the UW Bothell MFA community are excited to take part as community performers in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's What Problem?, forthcoming at Meany Hall March 24-26. Alum Emma Carson (MFA '16 ) and current first-year students Alexandria Simmons and Raelynne Woo will work with the company during spring break, culminating in ...
March 15, 2022
Ching-In Chen: “Breaths for Seattle” commissioned for Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Breaths for Seattle” is a poem commissioned by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods for the Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project, a public platform for community voices to help shape the conversation of ...
March 14, 2022
Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow Receives Beulah Rose Poetry Prize
Last week venerable literary journal Smartish Pace named IAS alum Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) the winner of its 19th annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Her poem "the what inside the thing made kin" will appear in the Summer 2022 issue of the journal alongside the other winners and finalists. ...
February 24, 2022
Talena Lachelle Queen’s Poem Featured in New Jersey Black History Curriculum
IAS alum Talena Lachelle Queen (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) has been busy at work with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to support the design and implementation of representative curricula throughout the state. ...
February 23, 2022
Ching-In Chen publishes “Inside me, more family”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, more family” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a triannual online literary magazine which publishes work interested in the socio-political influences on ...
February 22, 2022
MFA Alum Woogee Bae interviews Dao Strom for Full Stop
The latest issue of Full Stop, a journal of reviews and interviews, includes a lengthy interview between Woogee Bae (MFA, 2019) and author, artist, and musician Dao Strom. Strom previously visited the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics as ...
February 11, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali publishes in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is published in the new book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, published by Harper Collins. RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which APIA culture was ...
February 4, 2022