Graduation | Marginalia

Shenzhen, China. My future home and job.

I was recently speaking with my thesis advisor, Michael Robins, when he mentioned that it is ..

Only a few more months before I finish my MFA, but the job search has just begun. There is some natural anxiety as I begin this transiti..

Jess and I, our first week of graduate school

Jess Dugan recently completed her MFA at Columbia and she is already well on her way to ..

“So, like right now, for example the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, ‘What about the strain on our resource..

(See also: sentimentality.)

In almost any beginning workshop, you’ll learn that there’s one thing that will turn a good poem sour i..

So quickly all these events happened. Turning in of papers was followed by last days of classes. Working on my project presentation bo..

We graduated! The past two weeks have been absolutely crazy, emotional, exciting and challenging, but within just a few days I comple..

Three years ago, I began my MFA journey at Columbia. Now, as of a few days ago, that part of my life is finished. But, for me, the MFA..

Forgot that I had a blog due, that’s how demanding Los Angeles has become. I guess if I worked for a paper I’d be fired. . Today kicks..

This past week I had the pleasure of meeting some of the newly admitted students in the next cohort of Nonfiction MFA students at Colu..