By Erin Keane I could swim before I could walk. On visits to my grandparents’ house in Virginia, Grandmother would carry me into her...

The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing is delighted to welcome author and teacher Ellen Hagan to our faculty. Ellen...

Reviewed by Dana VanderLugt During the fourteen years I taught middle school English, one of the best parts of my job was playing book...

by Roy Hoffman Note: This essay originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times “For Sherrell, Who’s helped show me the way from my earliest...

by Debra Kang Dean When I began writing poetry in earnest, I believed there was nothing writing in lines couldn’t take on and, having...

Twenty years ago, Sena Jeter Naslund and Karen Mann founded Kentucky’s first Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding...

Karen Salyer McElmurray Voice Lessons: Essays Iris Press / 2021 / 128 pp / $20 Reviewed by Elaine Neil Orr The longest and most expensive...

by Robin Lippincott In Joan Didion’s latest book, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of previously published but uncollected...

Lauren Redniss Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Random House / 2020 / 288 pp/ $30.00 Hardcover / $20.00 Paperback...