Creative Writing
TagStudent Spotlight: Mikaela Shea
Here, I interview Mikaela Shea, a student in my cohort at Columbia. Like myself, Mikaela is in her thesis hours. (more…)
We Become Each Other’s Unmakers
Last Friday was the opening for the cross-departmental collaborative show We Become Each Other’s Unmakers, which explores “The simultan..
Thesis Update
Today, I thought I’d update my readers on my thesis.
I’m 150 pages in or so, and I was a bit stuck recently. I just wasn’t feeling ..
Why Chicago?
People always ask me why I chose to move to Chicago for graduate school. Often, they complain about the weather and winters, but I jus..
A New Literary Journal!
MarginAliens! I am super excited to present to you the FIRST ISSUE OF 3ELEMENTS REVIEW! This is a labor of love from myself, my great ..
Orientation and Resetting
And so another school year begins…I can’t believe it. This is the beginning of my third year in the program, and it just seems like ..
Representing the Cretive Writing Department at Pitchfork
Last week, I had the privilege of going to Pitchfork and working in the Book Tent. There, I worked with a few students in the differen..
Journaling
I’ve been writing in my journal a lot this summer. It’s not something I do that often. The department encourages it, but it isn’t part..
Stay active over summer
I saw a rainbow the other day when I was in Florida. It had been raining on and off during the afternoon, which is par for the course ..
Spring 2013!
It might be cold out (mostly—that strange 60 degree snap was bizarre!), but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t SPRING SEMESTER! After a..