UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
Popular author of YA, children’s books about kids of color to receive $800K.
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Nabila Hijazi presented a paper entitled, “Academic Death through Human Birth," as part of "RhetComp Mamas Speak: Autoethnographies of Everyday Maternal Activism" panel at the 2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.
Brian Richardson read a paper, “Dying Again and Again: Unruly Ecologies of Plot in Contemporary Fiction,” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present in October in College Park.
The MFA Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce our nominees for the Intro Journals Project (2020).
HeadStuff, the award winning Arts and Culture website, recently interviewed Mark Fitzgerald about his book, Downburst.
Maud Casey's story, "Bells of Loudun" appears in the current issue (7) of Bennington Review.
Konstantinos Pozoukidis received a $5,000 grant from the Gerondelis Foundation Inc.
Sabrina Islam has received an Emerging Writer Scholarship to attend Lydia Millet's workshop at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Fall 2019.
Mal Haselberger presented a conference paper at the American Printing History Association, "'[Shaping] up before my eyes and in my own loving hands': Jane Grabhorn's Jumbo Press and the Feminist Possbilities of Print," in October 2019.
Orrin Wang gave a talk, "Recessive and Hyperbolic Romanticism" and co-led a graduate seminar for the Middle Modern Group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison this last October.
Professor Rion Amilcar Scott contributes to the New York TImes.