| Description | This event is free and open to the public. Join us in celebrating our 2024 MFA candidates at the MFA Spring Festival! The Annual Spring Festival for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program features readings and performances by Graduating MFA candidates and Guest Artist, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. MFA candidates showcase selections from their MFA thesis projects.
Guest Artist Bio
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) is the award-winning author of three novels and three nonfiction titles, and the editor of six nonfiction anthologies. Her book The Freezer Door was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2021. Her memoir The End of San Francisco won a Lambda Literary Award, and her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her most recent anthology is Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis, and her new book, Touching the Art, was just released in November.with Featured Readings by MFA Candidates
Elisa Balabram, The Lighter Way
Mae Barbee, Playgod: Entertainment for Fools
Pria Dalrymple, Greetings from the Meat Aisle
Phoenix Kai, Trans Universe Theory
Lindsey Keefer, Propagation
Farron Knechtel, The Internet Sad Boi Journals
Melissa M. Knopp, Little Sufferings
Emma McVeigh, We Might Have Been a River
Korede Oluwaseyi, Oseni, Fractured Personification
Felicia Madrid Payomo, T R I N K E T
Parker Dean Smith, Bird Boy: Evolution at Lightspeed
Kathryn M. Tran, Fragmentary Mother
Candace Whitney-Morris, Variable Proximities: calculations of closeness | diagrams of distance
Gradon Wong, Borrowed Mysteries: Lines Composed on Tantalus The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office by May 24 at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu |
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