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Guest and visiting faculty, and a new staff member too!

We are delighted to welcome six guest and visiting faculty to the Spring semester and a new staff member to the School of Writing team!

An Ableist Reckoning for the Literary Canon: Review of Cyborg Detective

I find myself meditating on the phrase “don’t let your disability define you” since reading Jillian Weise’s poetry collection Cyborg Detecti

Spalding School of Writing 2021 Spring Residency Kicks Off Anniversary Year: Highlights Galore

by Kathleen Driskell ~ As we celebrate our twentieth anniversary, we also need to acknowledge that in March last year, Breonna Taylor was

The warm-up poem

by Lynnell Edwards ~ If you know what I mean by the title, then you don’t need convincing of its value. If not, I’m talking about

‘Letting the Work Create You’: A Conversation with Pico Iyer

An optimist, as sure-footed in his personal path as in his travel writing. A man who resides on two continents, spending half . . .

excerpt from The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

I’m in an interdepartmental committee meeting that’s run long, well past the time I told my husband I’d be home to relieve him . . .

review of Zadie Smith's Intimations

At less than 100 pages, this slim volume of essays describes an arc from March 29, 2020, two weeks into the national lockdown . . .

review of Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth

Set on the remote Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, this debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, revolves around . . .

review of Dinty W. Moore's To Hell with It...

At his inauguration President Biden said, “Many centuries ago, Saint Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was . . .

'Keeping the Unknowable Alive': A Conversation with Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet talks with Katy Yocom about her newest book, A Children's Bible.

'A Community Can Create a High Tide': A Conversation with Kevin Willmott

In September and October 2020, Kevin and I spoke about his career as a screenwriter, filmmaker, activist, and professor.

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