Description | Please join us for “Life After the MFA,” a conversation about literary and artistic pathways through and beyond the Master of Fine Arts. Bringing together alumni from the UW Seattle MFA in Creative Writing and the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, this event is an opportunity to learn more about Ph.D. programs; careers in education, the arts, and publishing; and the process of sustaining creative community. Alumni speakers include: - Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (UWB '14)
- Amanda Hurtado (UWB '17)
- Ainsley Kelly (UWS '18)
- Piper Lane (UWS '19)
- Nicole McCarthy (UWB '17)
- Deven Philbrick (UWS /18)
The conversation will be moderated by David Nikki Crouse and Amaranth Borsuk.Register here.
Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (she/they) (UWB ‘14) is a writer and visual artist living in Durham, NC. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from UW, Bothell. During their time at Bothell, they co-founded Small Po[r]tions/Letter [r] Press; they have also worked as a designer/editor at Essay Press, and most recently as a designer for the Elephants. They have worked in production with university presses for the past six years, starting as a production intern at MIT Press, and currently working as a book designer at Duke University Press. Their designs have appeared with SPINE Magazine’s University Press Cover Round-up, and have won awards from the Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. ahhatype.com / aimeewrightclow.comAmanda Hurtado (UWB ‘17) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st century poety and media poetics. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington, Bothell and a BA in English from the University of Utah. She is the author of S ACE P (Timglaset, 2020 & Editions Eclipse, 2014) and CELL (Mono-D Press, 2015). Ainsley Kelly (UWS ‘18) is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Shipsey Poetry Prize, and an Eleanor B. North Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Passages North, Poets.Org, Fourteen Hills, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Hummingbird, Quiddity, and The Santa Clara Review among others. She has received support from the Napa Valley Writers Conference and from the Community of Writers. Ainsley grew up in California and earned her MFA at the University of Washington. She now works as an adjunct writing instructor and nonprofit administrator. Piper Lane (UWS ‘19) is a writer, teacher, doula and fisherman born and raised in Homer, Alaska. She holds an MFA from University of Washington and an MA from Ohio University, and commercial fished in Prince William Sound and in Bristol Bay. She’s currently at work revising her first novel, Standing in the Bight, about a commercial fishing family and the women they abandon. She currently resides in Seattle, where she works for Seattle Arts and Lectures. She was a Hugo House fellow in 2019-20 and a Hedgebrook resident in 2022, and her work can be found in PANK, the Fourth River, Territory, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter at thealaskanwitch. Nicole McCarthy (UWB ‘17) is an experimental writer and artist based outside of Seattle. Her work has appeared in PANK, Hobart, The Offing, Redivider, Glass: a Journal of Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, and others. Her work has also been performed and encountered as projection installation pieces throughout the Puget Sound. Her first nonfiction collection, A SUMMONING, will be published summer of 2022 from Heavy Feather Review. Find her at nicolemccarthypoet.com. Deven Philbrick (UWS ‘18) is a writer and poet living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works have appeared in Zone 3, Diode Poetry, Palooka, Your Impossible Voice, Protean Magazine and other venues. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, working on a dissertation concerning 20th century innovative poetics and process philosophy. Learn more at devenphilbrick.com. |
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