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July 2011 Residency

Photo credits: Marvin Snider (Thanks, Marv!)

Buffy Hastings holds forth

Buffy Hastings holds forth

Laban Carrick Hill and graduate Joe Gannon catch up

Laban Carrick Hill and graduate Joe Gannon catch up

Steve Huff and poetry student Golda Solomon

Steve Huff and poetry student Golda Solomon

Assistant Hannah Goodman, and new grads Rick Carr and Seth Edwards

Assistant Hannah Goodman, and new grads Rick Carr and Seth Edwards

New grad Kate Schmitt and fiction student Heather Christie

New grad Kate Schmitt and fiction student Heather Christie

Alumni Coordinator Faye Snider and new grad Jim Kennedy

Alumni Coordinator Faye Snider and new grad Jim Kennedy

New grads Melissa Ford Lucken and Laura Jones share a chair

New grads Melissa Ford Lucken and Laura Jones share a chair

MFA graduate Melissa Ford Lucken

MFA graduate Melissa Ford Lucken

MFA graduate Kate Schmitt

MFA graduate Kate Schmitt

MFA graduate Rick Carr

MFA graduate Rick Carr

MFA graduate Seth Edwards

MFA graduate Seth Edwards

MFA graduate Angela Foster

MFA graduate Angela Foster

Fiction students Alison McLennan and Heather Christie

Fiction students Alison McLennan and Heather Christie

New graduates Angela Foster and Jim Kennedy chat with graduate Erin Lawler

New graduates Angela Foster and Jim Kennedy chat with graduate Erin Lawler

MFA graduate Suzanne Deshchidn

MFA graduate Suzanne Deshchidn

July 2011 class speaker Jina Simmons after her graduate reading

July 2011 class speaker Jina Simmons after her graduate reading

July 2011 Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

July 2011 Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

Suzanne Deshchidn graduates

Suzanne Deshchidn graduates

Carol Owens Campbell shows off her diploma

Carol Owens Campbell shows off her diploma

Rick Carr graduates

Rick Carr graduates

Seth Edwards graduates

Seth Edwards graduates

Angela Foster graduates

Angela Foster graduates

Laura Jones graduates

Laura Jones graduates

Melissa Ford Lucken graduates

Melissa Ford Lucken graduates

Kate Schmitt graduates

Kate Schmitt graduates

Jina Simmons graduates

Jina Simmons graduates

Teresa Sutton graduates

Teresa Sutton graduates

July 2011 graduation reception

July 2011 graduation reception

Program Director Meg Kearney and new MFA faculty member Robert Lopez

Program Director Meg Kearney and new MFA faculty member Robert Lopez

Young adult writers Colleen Shanahan, Lauren Kelly, and Alexis Miller

Young adult writers Colleen Shanahan, Lauren Kelly, and Alexis Miller

Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

New graduates Melissa Ford Lucken, Laura Jones, and Carol Owens Campbell

New graduates Melissa Ford Lucken, Laura Jones, and Carol Owens Campbell

Dane Science Building

Dane Science Building

Annenberg Library

Annenberg Library

Haldan Hall

Campus entrance

Campus entrance

PMC campus

Seagull sculpture

Seagull sculpture

Graduates & Faculty, July 2011

Graduates & Faculty, July 2011

Graduates, Faculty, & Staff, July 2011

Graduates, Faculty, & Staff, July 2011

PMC President Dr. Alane Shanks speaks at MFA graduation

PMC President Dr. Alane Shanks speaks at MFA graduation

Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

Commencement Speaker Cornelius Eady

Robert Lopez presents Carol Owens Campbell

Robert Lopez presents Carol Owens Campbell

Carol Owens Campbell receives her diploma

Carol Owens Campbell receives her diploma

Seth Edwards receives his diploma

Seth Edwards receives his diploma

Angela Foster receives her diploma

Angela Foster receives her diploma

Jim Kennedy receives his diploma

Jim Kennedy receives his diploma

Jina Simmons receives her diploma

Jina Simmons receives her diploma

Melissa Ford Lucken teaching her graduate lecture

Melissa Ford Lucken teaching her graduate lecture

January 2011 Residency

January 2011 Graduates with Commencement Speaker Jessica Hagedorn

"Life After the MFA” Panelists

MFA students Jim Kennedy and Angela Foster and graduate Erin Lawler

New mom and nonfiction writer Jina Simmons

Faculty member Anne-Marie Oomen and graduate Cindy Zelman

Faculty member Randall Kenan and graduate Ann McArdle

MFA students Jacque Brown, Melissa Lucken, and Laura Jones

MFA students Susan Lemere, Kassie Rubico, and Beth Grosart

MFA graduate Joe Gannon, student Gabriel Cleveland, and faculty member Anne-Marie Oomen

Faculty member Randall Kenan and graduate Faye Snider

Graduate Donna Coffey

Graduate Peggy Sue Dunigan

Graduate Joe Gannon

Graduate Jina Ortiz

Graduate Erin Lawler

Graduate and class speaker Mike Miner

MFA poetry students

Poetry students and faculty members

Nonfiction students and faculty members

Fiction students and faculty members

Writing for Young People students and faculty members

MFA faculty and staff

Graduate Kimberly Kreines

Graduate Alison Stone

Graduate Hannah Goodman

Graduate Kathleen Ingraham

Graduate Estela Gonzalez

January 2011 MFA Graduates

January 2011 MFA Graduates with Commencement Speaker Jessica Hagedorn and Program Director Meg Kearney and Assistant Director Tanya Whiton

January 2011 MFA Graduates with presenting faculty members

January 2011 presenting faculty members and Commencement Speaker Jessica Hagedorn

Jan 2011 Class Speaker Michael Miner

Donna Coffey receives her diploma

Peggy Sue Dunigan receives her diploma

Joe Gannon receives his diploma

Estela Gonzalez receives her diploma

Hannah Goodman receives her diploma

Kathleen Ingraham receives her diploma

Kimberly Kreines receives her diploma

Erin Lawler receives her diploma

Mike Miner receives his diploma

Jina Ortiz receives her diploma

Faculty member Mark Turcotte and Program Director Meg Kearney

Commencement Speaker Jessica Hagedorn and MFA student James Anderson

Writing for Young People workshop

Mike Miner, graduate lecture

Creative nonfiction workshop with Amy Hoffman

Faculty member Sandra Scofield’s class on the novel

Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes’ class on Frank O’Hara & The Sympathetic Reader

Changing Lives Through Literature Panel

Faculty member Mark Turcotte’s class on poetry

Faculty member Laura Williams McCaffrey’s class on world building

Fiction workshop with Steven Huff

Poetry workshop with Mark Turcotte

Writing for Young People workshop with Laban Carrick Hill and Laura Williams McCaffrey

Fiction workshop with Venise Berry

Creative nonfiction workshop with Anne-Marie Oomen

Faculty member David Yoo’s class on beginnings

Faculty member David Yoo’s class on beginnings

Director Meg Kearney and Special Guest Marilyn Kallet

July 2010 Residency

Fiction faculty member Sterling Watson with students Mike Miner and Ann McArdle

Graduates Lisa Fiedlander and Laura Snyder

Hanging out on the Ferry veranda

Young-adult writers Kathleen Ingraham and Kimberly Wisneski

Angela Foster and Rick Carr chatting at the graduate reception

Graduate reception on the Ferry veranda

MFA student Seth Williams introduces faculty member Anne-Marie Oomen

Anne-Marie Oomen reads from An American Map

Multi-genre writer and faculty member Jaime Manrique reads from his work

Jaime Manrique reading

Writing for young people workshop with Laura Williams McCaffrey

Creative nonfiction workshop with Evelina Galang

Poetry workshop with Kathi Aguero

Creative nonfiction workshop with Anne-Marie Oomen

Fiction and creative nonfiction faculty member Evelina Galang in the classroom

Special guest Lesléa Newman in the classroom

Poetry workshop with Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Writing for young people workshop with David Yoo

Writer-in-Residence Mike Steinberg in the classroom

Special guest Kevin McLellan teaches a poetry collaboration workshop

Writer-in-Residence Dennis Lehane teaches a craft class on character

Special guest Josh Neufeld co-teaches a class on the graphic novel

Sari Wilson co-teaches a class on the graphic novel

MFA student Kassie Rubico

MFA graduate Jennifer Morrison after her reading

MFA graduate Lisa Friedlander, post reading

MFA graduate Jasen Sousa

After the first-half graduate readings

Fiction students and faculty members

Nonfiction students and faculty members

Writing for young people students and faculty members

Poetry students and faculty members

MFA faculty and staff

MFA students James Anderson and Carol Owens Campbell

MFA Writer-in-Residence Mike Steinberg

MFA student Rick Carr

Faculty-Student barbecue

Graduate Ann McArdle

Graduate Cindy Zelman

Graduate Mike Farrell

Graduate Kerry Beckford

MFA Alumni Coordinator Faye Snider

Faye Snider and Estela Gonzalez chatting

Kerry Beckford and Jasen Sousa chatting

Laure-Anne Bosselaar and graduate Jennifer Morrison

Graduates, faculty members, and commencement speaker Phillip Lopate

Graduates and commencement speaker Phillip Lopate

Presenting faculty members

Program Director Meg Kearney, Phillip Lopate, and Assistant Director Tanya Whiton

Commencement speaker Phillip Lopate

Kerry Beckford graduates!

Mike Farrell graduates!

Lisa Friedlander graduates!

Class speaker Ann McArdle graduates!

Jennifer Morrison graduates!

Jasen Sousa graduates!

Cindy Zelman graduates!

Graduate reception

Melissa Lucken taking a time out at the graduate reception

Mingling in the Moncrief Room

Cindy Zelman and Suzanne Deschidn enjoying the faculty-student barbecue

Anne-Marie Oomen and Kathi Aguero

MFA photographer and friend Marvin Snider

Graduates Jennifer Morrison and Cindy Zelman

Graduates and faculty members chatting before the ceremony

Graduates Mike Farrell, Jasen Sousa, and Lisa Freidlander

Presenting faculty and Phillip Lopate

Before the party begins

Ann McArdle begins her speech

Poetry students Jacqueline Brown and Jina Ortiz

January 2010 Residency

Jina Simmons & guest Mary Collins engaged in discussion

Dorothy Allison reading

Ray Gonzalez workshop, poetry

Melissa Varnavas receives her diploma

Graduating students with Commencement speaker Louise Meriwether

Dzvinia Orlowsky, poetry workshop

Faye Rapoport DesPres receives her diploma

Commencement speaker Louise Meriwether

January 2010 class speaker Karima Grant

Soon-to-be graduate Karima Grant & alums Sara Cameron and Erika Sanders pose for Oprah

Krystal Oh receives her diploma

Steven Huff, fiction workshop

Karima Grant receives her diploma

Towana Wright & Helen Elaine Lee chatting

Amy Hoffman workshop, creative nonfiction

Special guest M.L. Liebler performs

Anthony Kaczynski accompanies special guest M.L. Liebler

Venise Berry, fiction workshop

Mike Miner introduces Randall Kenan

Donna Coffey & Joe Gannon sharing ideas

Meg Kearney & Tanya Whiton receiving gifts from graduating class

Graduating student Krystal Oh

Graduating student Melissa Varnavas teaching a class

Graduating student Faye Rapoport teaching a class

Special guest Melissa Stewart showing picture book illustrations

Graduating student Melissa Varnavas

Graduating student Faye Rapoport DesPres

Graduating student Laura Snyder

David Yoo reading

Laban Carrick Hill, writing for young people workshop

Jina Ortiz & Lisa Friedlander in class

MFA Director Meg Kearney & Commencement speaker Louise Meriwether

Creative nonfiction workshop

Dean Nia Lane Chester hobnobs at the graduate reception

Dorothy Allison workshop, fiction

Kerry Beckford introduces Amy Hoffman

Commencement speaker Louise Meriwether

Special guest Ira Sadoff

Graduating student Karima Grant

Randall Kenan workshop, fiction

Laura Snyder receives her diploma

David Yoo reading, Founder's Room

Ray Gonzalez & Mike Farrell chatting

Anne-Marie Oomen reads

Our poetry students

Another special guest

Carol Owens Campbell introduces Steve Huff

Randall Kenan reading

January & July 2009

Writing for Young People workshop with An Na

Fiction writing workshop with Venise Berry

Helen Elaine Lee, graduate Richard Anderson, and Dean Nia Lane Chester

January 2009 group photo

Graduating student Liza Kollman gives a reading

Special guest Naomi Shihab Nye gives a talk

Special Guest Naomi Shihab Nye gives a talk

Graduating student Kimberly Mitchell gives a reading

Guest Matt O'Donnell of From the Fishouse

Presenting faculty, January 2009 graduation

Program Director Meg Kearney and Commencement speaker Donald Hall

Randall Kenan teaches a class

Graduating student Bob Miller gives a reading

Poetry workshop with Terrance Hayes

Venise Berry gives a reading

Graduating student Danielle DeTiberus gives a reading

Graduating student Richard Anderson gives a reading

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, graduate Danielle DeTiberus, and Dean Nia Lane Chester

Jacqueline Woodson, graduate Maryann Jacob, and Dean Nia Lane Chester

Fiction writing workshop

Special guest Naomi Shihab Nye gives a reading

Creative nonfiction workshop with Amy Hoffman

Steve Huff teaches a class on line breaks

Terrance Hayes gives a reading

Laban Carrick Hill and graduate Kimberly Mitchell

Graduating student Faye Snider gives a reading

January, 2009 graduates

Randall Kenan's class on the personal essay

Presenting faculty member Dzvinia Orlowsky

Michael Steinberg and graduate Faye Snider

Graduating student Emily Van Duyne gives a reading

Special guest Naomi Shihab Nye gives a reading

Steven Huff and graduate Christina Irace

Terrace Hayes gives a reading

Laban Carrick Hill gives a reading

January & July 2009

Graduate reader Alison McGrath

July 2009 graduates

Graduate Deborah Wood Holton

Joy Castro reads

Grace Lin's class on the pacing of a picture book

Poetry Students

MFA graduate Erika Sanders

Writing for Children and Young Adults workshop with Laura Williams McCaffrey

Poetry workshop with Anne-Marie Oomen

Sterling Watson reads

MFA student Laura Jones

Graduate reader Debbie Holton

Creative Nonfiction workshop with Joy Castro

Graduate reader Charles Boisseau

Special Guest Jeffrey Thomson reads

Helen Elaine Lee, Karima Grant, and Faye Snider

MFA students Jasen Sousa and Rick Carr

Anne-Marie Oomen's class on ekphrastic writing

Fiction workshop with Ray Gonzalez

Dzvinia Orlowsky reads

MFA student Donna Coffey

Graduates with PMC President Gloria Nemerowicz and Director Meg Kearney

Randall Kenan and MFA student Angela Foster

Graduate Linda Alcorace

Creative Nonfiction workshop

Writing for Young People students

Graduate Sara Cameron

Class speaker Erika Sanders

Kathi Aguero chatting with students

MFA students Sara Cameron and Cindy Zelman

MFA faculty, staff, and special guest Bruce Bennett

Fiction workshop with Sterling Watson

Fiction students

July 2009 graduates

Anne-Marie Oomen

Faculty/Student barbecue

Creative Nonfiction students

MFA faculty and staff

Graduate Charles Boisseau and his daughter Katherine

MFA graduates with faculty and Commencement speaker Walter Mosley

PMC President Gloria Nemerowicz

Commencement speaker Walter Mosley

Writing for Children and Young Adult workshop with Laban Carrick Hill and Grace Lin

July 2009 graduates with Commencement speaker Walter Mosley

First Graduation Ceremony

July 19, 2008

The graduates and their faculty mentors

The graduates await their diplomas

President Nemerowicz addresses the graduates

Director Meg Kearney, speaker Nina Crews, and PMC President Gloria Nemerowicz

Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar holds court

Commencement speaker Nina Crews

Snapping photos of the graduates

Director Meg Kearney and Trooper

Kirsten Blocker receives her diploma and a hug

Kirsten Blocker shows off her diploma

Asa Antoine and Ava LaRusso meet

Kathleen Aguero speaks on behalf of Kirsten Blocker

An Na speaks on behalf of Adam Eisenson

MFA student Alison McGrath and baby Ava

Adam Eisenson shows off his diploma

Nina Crews and YA writer An Na chat

Fiction students

MFA students Bob Miller and Charles Boisseau

Writer-in-residence Mike Steinberg offers some parting advice to graduate John Theo Jr.

Nina Crews and YA writer Laura Williams McCaffrey chat

July 2008 Residency

MFA Students, July 2008

YA novelist An Na reads

Laura Williams McCaffrey leads a workshop

Fiction writer and poet Steven Huff leads a workshop

Adam Eisenson in class

Dennis Lehane in workshop

Writer-in-residence Michael Steinberg reads

MFA student Joe Gannon reads

MFA student Alison McGrath reads (with interpreter Adam Eisenson)

MFA graduate John Theo Jr. teaches a class on religious allegory in Tolkien

Fiction writer Helen Elaine Lee leads a workshop

MFA student Deborah Wood Holton reads

Laure-Anne Bosselaar in workshop

Bob Owczarek teaches a class on reading for performance

YA novelist Laura Williams McCaffrey reads

First-half MFA faculty and staff

MFA student Ann McArdle reads

Roland Merullo gives a talk on the demons that keep us from writing

Peter Wood teaches a class on form

Laure-Anne Bosselaar leads a poetry workshop

A panel on publishing with guests David Replogle, Esmond Harmsworth, and Mary Lee Donovan

MFA graduate Adam Eisenson teaches a class on scene writing

Graduating student John Theo Jr. reads

Mike Steinberg and guest Lad Tobin on teaching composition and creative writing workshops

Elizabeth Peavey gives a talk on writing about place

MFA poetry students

Peter Wood's class on form

Fiction writer Dennis Lehane leads a workshop

MFA creative nonfiction students

MFA students, July 2008

Kathleen Aguero leads a poetry workshop

Second-half MFA faculty, guests, and staff

Fiction writer Sterling Watson leads a workshop

Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar reads

Kathi Aguero in workshop

MFA Director Meg Kearney reads

Multi-genre writers Ray Gonzalez and Randall Kenan lead a workshop

MFA student Jasen Sousa reads

MFA student readings

MFA student Towana Wright reads

MFA fiction students

MFA student Michael Farrell reads

Multi-genre writer Laban Carrick Hill leads a workshop

MFA student Karima Grant reads

MFA students and faculty, July 2008

Ray Gonzalez reads

Special guest Roland Merullo reads

Agent Esmond Harmsworth and editor Mary Lee Donovan

January 2008 Residency

Laban Carrick Hill teaches a class on the critical essay

Sheree Renee Thomas' class on magical realism

MFA students Erika Sanders, Richard Anderson, and Laura Snyder

Sheree Renee Thomas teaches a class on magical realism

Randall Kenan and MFA student Karima Grant at the opening reception

Laban Carrick Hill's class on the critical essay

Kathleen Aguero at the opening reception

MFA Program staff, faculty, and students

Jacqueline Woodson gives a reading

Randall Kenan at the opening reception

MFA program intern Tiara Marchando hosts the student readings

Sheree Renee Thomas' class on magical realism

Joy Castro and MFA student Faye Snider at the opening reception

MFA students Laura Snyder and Karima Grant having a chat

Dzvinia Orlowsky's class on prose poems versus flash fiction

MFA Program faculty and staff

Sandra Scofield in workshop

MFA student John Theo Jr. and Kimberly Mitchell in workshop

MFA student Charles Boisseau at the mic

MFA student Melissa Varnavas and Kirsten Blocker chatting

Laban Carrick Hill and Kathleen Aguero at the opening reception

MFA student Adam Eisenson at the mic

MFA student Debbie Holton at the mic

Laban Carrick Hill's class on the critical essay

Dzvinia Orlowsky reads

Sheree Renee Thomas giving a reading

Dzvinia Orlowsky teaches a class on prose poems versus flash fiction

MFA student John Theo Jr. at the mic

July 2007 Residency

Faculty member Randall Kenan

Faculty member Dennis Lehane

Faculty member Laura Williams McCaffrey

MFA student Kirsten Blocker from Massachusetts

Faculty member Sterling Watson

Faculty and students, July 2007

MFA student Maryann Jacob from New York

MFA student Adam Eisenson from North Carolina

MFA student Kimberly Mitchell from Arkansas

Faculty member Helen Elaine Lee

MFA student Emily VanDuyne from California

MFA student Faye Snider from Massachusetts

January 2007 Reception

MFA faculty Terrance Hayes and MFA student Bob Miller

Faculty, students, and staff

Faculty, students, and staff

Faculty, students, and staff

Faculty, students, and staff

July 2006 Residency

Our inaugural class and a few founding faculty members

Fiction students during a workshop conducted by Dennis Lehane (far right)

Guest Jean Trounstine (far left) conducts a session titled "Changing Lives Through Literature"

Fiction students listening to Roland Merullo's session titled "The Demons that Keep You from Writing"

Faculty member An Na (right) during a writing for children and young adults workshop

Our workshops are intimate with plenty of time for individual attention

An Na in workshop

MFA student Maryann Jacob in workshop

Faculty member Kathleen Aguero (left) leads a poetry workshop

Faculty, staff, and students from our inaugural class

Novelist and creative nonfiction writer Roland Merullo teaches a fiction workshop

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