Creative Writing – Fiction | Marginalia

Do you know TED? It stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED events are kind of like conferences that center around talks..

Congratulations to all who have been accepted into Columbia College Chicago’s Creative Writing – Fiction, MFA program! It’s a very com..

I’ve been in a thesis haze recently.

Okay, so I started a new job. It’s awesome—I love it. It’s 40 hours a week, it is putting my w..

If you’re wondering what a thesis meeting looks like, here’s a bit of the process.

1) You go to your zen place and you write. I lik..

Happy New Year, MarginAliens! I hope that everyone had a fun New Year’s Eve, and I hope that we all made some good and attainable reso..

St. Louis Arch

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Sure, I like getting a few days off and I like getting to see family, but it..

It’s winter again. Well, almost winter, but let’s just call it what it feels like. Cold, wet, soggy, snowy, icy. If you’re new to..

photographer: Jacob Boll

Recent Columbia graduate, Cyn Vargas, talks to Marginalia about her new book, her current work, and more. Che..

I’m serving on the Strategic Planning Steering Committee. This is a committee that is tasked with taking Dr. Kim’s white paper, “Redef..

I met up with Megan Stielstra and Bobby Biedrzycki the other day to speak about their course, “Story and Performance.” I took this cou..