Edited by Kathleen Driskell and Katy Yocom
Welcome home. Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the nationally recognized Spalding low-residency MFA in Writing program, this anthology collects essays from the MFA faculty blog from 2014 to 2021. These works offer a trove of insights and accumulated wisdom from fifty faculty members, directors, staff, and alumni—each dedicated to the Spalding ethos of creativity and compassion. Here, you’ll find explorations of craft, literary figures, the writing life, the interrelatedness of the arts, publication, production, and more. By turns practical and lyrical, inspiring and consoling, these essays illustrate the extraordinary literary spirit that defines the Spalding family.
On sale November 16, 2021, on Bookshop.org and everywhere books are sold.
Proceeds benefit scholarship funds for students of Spalding’s low-residency graduate School of Writing programs.
Contributors
Dianne Aprile
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Beth Ann Bauman
Larry Brenner
Julie Brickman
K. L. Cook
Carolyn Crimi
Debra Kang Dean
Gabriel Jason Dean
Kathleen Driskell
Pete Duval
Lynnell Edwards
Kirby Gann
Lamar Giles
Rachel M. Harper
Edith M. Hemingway
Leah Henderson
Jason Hill
Roy Hoffman
Silas House
Jason Kyle Howard
Fenton Johnson
Erin Keane
Helena Kriel
Ellyn Lichvar
Robin Lippincott
Jody Lisberger
Karen Mann
Douglas Manuel
Charles Maynard
Nancy McCabe
Maureen Morehead
Eleanor Morse
Sena Jeter Naslund
Lesléa Newman
Kira Obolensky
Elaine Neil Orr
Jeremy Paden
Greg Pape
John Pipkin
Michael Roberts
Bruce Marshall Romans
Charlie Schulman
Jeanie Thompson
Neela Vaswani
Rebecca Walker
Crystal Wilkinson
Keith S. Wilson
Katy Yocom
Sam Zalutsky