MFA in Creative WritingInterviews with MFA GraduatesStudents come to Goddard’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program with diverse and unique life experiences that ground and deepen their studies. Graduates of the program are passionate, engaged, and committed writers who make a difference in the world. In the interviews below, conducted by faculty advisors, graduates talk about writing, life, and their studies in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program.  Interview with MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Kiara Brinkman“At Goddard I gained the confidence to make writing a top priority in my life." Kiara Brinkman's first novel, Up High in the Trees (Grove Press, July 07) has been called “a very moving and perfectly convincing portrait of the inner life of an unusual boy” by Dave Eggers. Read More... Interview with MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Karen Essex"I would say that in the end, I was both lovingly nurtured and lovingly humbled by my experience at Goddard." Karen Essex is a novelist, screenwriter, and award-winning journalist. She is the author of the national and international best-selling novel, Leonardo’s Swans (Doubleday 2006). Read More... Interview with MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Cara Hoffman“Goddard College gives writers a kind of freedom they can't get in any other program in the country, and the kind of close reading and objective inquiry you can't get doing it alone." Even before graduation Cara's novel So Much Pretty had found an agent, very shortly after it found a major sale with Random House. Read More... Susan Merson – Screenwriting"Goddard gave me an opportunity to regroup, refocus and set my sails for the second half of my life and career." Susan recently published her nonfiction book (written at Goddard College) entitled Your Name Here: An Actor/Writer's Guide to Solo Performance. Read More... Interview with MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Chris Millis"I found Goddard to be a warm community of fellow travelers. We creative people need to support one another." Chris Millis graduated from Goddard's low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in 2007. His first novel, Small Apartments, has been called “zany” (The Washington Post), “hilarious… an impressive achievement” (The Post-Star). Read More...
 Christian Peet - Poetry and Cross-Genre"This is a group of writers whose social consciousness is more than a little at odds with insularity and elitism." Christian Peet is Founder and Editor in-Chief of Tarpaulin Sky Press & Online Journal. He taught now lives in Vermont where he teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the Community College of Vermont and freelances as a web and book designer. Read More... Interview with MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Matthew M. QuickGoddard makes it your responsibility to write, to have a voice. That’s a cool thing." Matthew M. Quick’s debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008, is already being hailed as a riotous, poignant story. Screen rights have been acquired by The Weinstein Company, with Mirage Productions. Read More...  Selah Saterstrom – Fiction"At Goddard I realized that for me community is necessary." Selah Saterstrom graduated from the Goddard College low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in 2002. Her thesis manuscript, The Pink Institution was published by Coffee House in 2004. Read More... Nagueyalti Warren – Poetry and Fiction"Goddard is the perfect place for walking/writing a different pathway." Nagueyalti Warren came to the MFA in Creative Writing Program in the summer of 2003, wanting to complete a novel and to improve her ability to write poetry. A Cave Canem fellow, Ms. Warren has published her poetry in Essence, Gathering Ground Tenth Anniversary Anthology, Obsidian II and The African American Review. Read More...
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