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<\/a>Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her best-known work is “The Joy Luck Club”, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film. Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including “The Kitchen God\u2019s Wife,” “The Hundred Secret Senses,” “The Bonesetter\u2019s Daughter” and “Saving Fish from Drowning.” She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled “The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.” In addition to these, Tan has written two children\u2019s books: “The Moon Lady” and “Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat,” which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write. Tan is also in a band with several other well-known writers, the Rock Bottom Remainders.<\/p>\nWatch the Amy Tan YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Susan Choi\u2019s first novel,\u00a0The Foreign Student<\/em>, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction.\u00a0 Her second novel,\u00a0American Woman<\/em>, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Her third novel,\u00a0A Person of Interest<\/em>,\u00a0was a finalist for the 2009 PEN\/Faulkner Award.\u00a0 In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN\/W.G. Sebald Award.\u00a0 Her fourth novel,\u00a0My Education<\/em>, received a 2014 Lammy Award.\u00a0 Her fifth novel,\u00a0Trust Exercise, <\/em>won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and in 2021 she received the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for \u201cFlashlight.\u201d \u00a0 She serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n Watch the Susan Choi YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n A. Kendra Greene is an essayist, printer, and maker of artist\u2019s books. She writes about collections and records radio essays and spends not enough time locking up wood type on a Vandercook proof press.<\/p>\n She began her museum career adhering text to the wall one trembling vinyl letter at a time. From there she went on to manage a collection of photography, costume a giant ground sloth, and keeps returning as a Visiting Artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center.<\/p>\n Her work as an essayist started during a\u00a0Fulbright\u00a0to teach English in South Korea, and\u00a0she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the\u00a0University of Iowa\u00a0and a Graduate Certificate from the\u00a0University of Iowa Center for the Book\u00a0under the auspices of a\u00a0Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She is Associate Editor of prose at the\u00a0Southwest Review<\/em>\u00a0and lately a Fellow at\u00a0Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab.<\/p>\n Kendra makes\u00a0books\u00a0and\u00a0broadsides\u00a0under the imprint Greene Ink Press, and occasionally Red Thread Press, while\u00a0posters\u00a0are done under the name Miniature Giraffe Press. Her\u00a0chapbooks\u00a0and broadsides are held in the special collections of Yale, Carnegie Mellon, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Miami, and University of Iowa, among others. Kendra’s writing is more broadly available in print publications like\u00a0The Normal School<\/em>,\u00a0Field Working: Reading and Writing Research 4th ed., and\u00a0The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010. Ephemerally, her zines can be found in the White Rock Zine Machine, for 25 cents a pop.<\/p>\n Watch the A. Kendra Greene YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor’s Prize,\u00a0<\/span>the Midwest Book Award, the ForeWord INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards,\u00a0and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. More than 400 of his poems have appeared in such noted journals and magazines as\u00a0American Poetry Review<\/em>,\u00a0Iowa Review<\/em>,\u00a0Ecotone<\/em>,\u00a0North American Review<\/em>,\u00a0Indiana Review<\/em>,\u00a0Alaska Quarterly Review<\/em>,\u00a0Missouri Review<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry Northwest<\/em>,\u00a0Sycamore Review<\/em>,\u00a0Gettysburg Review<\/em>,\u00a0Orion<\/em>,\u00a0West Branch<\/em>,\u00a0River Styx<\/em>, and\u00a0Poetry Daily<\/em>. He teaches creative writing, American literature, and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University\u2019s Altoona College.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch the Todd and Noah Davis YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Watch the Zaina Arafat YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of “THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir,” which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, The Guardian, Paris Match, Lire, Telerama, and The Sydney Press Herald, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award, and has been translated into ten languages.<\/p>\n They have written for The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, Oxford American, Harper\u2019s, and many other publications. They earned their BA at Columbia University, their JD at Harvard Law School, and their MFA at Emerson College. They are now an assistant professor at Bowdoin College and live in Portland, Maine, with an enormous puppy.<\/p>\n Watch the Alex Marzano-Lesnevich YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Watch the Lina Ferreira YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Watch the Alex Espinoza YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n Watch the Eman Hassan YouTube Streamed Video Here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Head over to the Visiting Writers Page to learn about this years Writers!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the midst of the pandemic, the MFA program worked to ensure that they continued offering their Visiting Writers Series by moving online. The writers for the academic school year of 2020-2023 were: Amy Tan Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. 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\nA. Kendra Greene<\/h3>\n
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\nTodd Davis<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Todd Davis<\/span>\u00a0is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry–Coffin Honey,\u00a0<\/em>Native Species,\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Winterkill<\/em>,\u00a0In the Kingdom of the Ditch<\/em>,\u00a0The Least of These<\/em>,\u00a0Some Heaven<\/em>, and\u00a0Ripe<\/em>\u2014as well as of a limited edition chapbook,\u00a0Household of Water, Moon, and Snow<\/em>. He edited the nonfiction collection,\u00a0Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball<\/em>, and co-edited\u00a0Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets<\/em>. His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column\u00a0American Life in Poetry\u00a0<\/em>and has been anthologized in such books as\u00a0The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry<\/em>\u00a0and Bedford\/St. Martin’s textbook,\u00a0Approaching Literature<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\nNoah Davis<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Noah Davis\u00a0grew up in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and writes about the Allegheny Front. Davis\u2019 manuscript\u00a0Of This River<\/em>\u00a0was selected by George Ella Lyon for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University\u2019s Center for Poetry. His poems and prose have appeared in\u00a0The Sun, Best New Poets,<\/em>\u00a0Southern Humanities Review, Orion, North American Review, River Teeth, The Year\u2019s Best Sports Writing,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Chautauqua<\/em>\u00a0among others. His poetry and prose have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writer\u2019s Conference along with the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University. Davis earned an MFA at Indiana University.<\/p>\n
\nZaina Arafat<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel, You Exist Too Much, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2020.\u00a0<\/em>Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including\u00a0The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, BuzzFeed<\/em>, VICE, Guernica, Literary Hub and NPR. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Arab Women\/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship at Jack Jones Literary Arts and named a Champion of Pride by The Advocate. She holds an M.F.A. from Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University.\u00a0S<\/em>he lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on a collection of essays.<\/p>\n
\nAlex Marzano-Lesnevich<\/h3>\n
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\nLina Ferreira<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Lina was born and raised (mostly) in Bogota, Colombia and has since then been tumbleweeding aimlessly through the world. She is the author of “Drown Sever Sing,” and her ode to cannibalism can be found in the collection titled, “After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays.” She is a graduate of The University of Iowa\u2019s Creative Nonfiction and Literary Translation programs, and her work has been featured in Arts and Letters, The Chicago Review, and Fourth Genre, among others. Her new book, “Don\u2019t Come Back,” is published by Mad River Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press (January 2017). Ferreira is a recipient of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer\u2019s Award.<\/p>\n
\nAlex Espinoza<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the state of Michoac\u00e1n and raised in suburban Los Angeles. In high school and afterwards, he worked a series of retail jobs, selling everything from eggs and milk to used appliances, custom furniture, rock T-shirts, and body jewelry. After graduating from the University of California-Riverside, he went on to earn an MFA from UC-Irvine\u2019s Program in Writing. His first novel, “Still Water Saints,” was published by Random House in 2007 and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. The book was released simultaneously in Spanish, under the title “Los santos de Agua Mansa, California,” translated by Lilliana Valenzuela. His second novel, “The Five Acts of Diego Le\u00f3n,” was also published by Random House in March 2013. His latest book is “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime,” published by Unnamed Press in 2019.<\/p>\n
\nEman Hassan<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Bicultural poet and essayist from Massachusetts and Kuwait, Eman Hassan is the author of\u00a0Raghead<\/em>, which was the recipient of a Folsom Award and\u00a0named as the 2018 Editor\u2019s Choice for a first collection of poems\u00a0(New Issues Press, 2019). She recieved an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University, where she worked as International Poetry Editor for Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review, and a PhD in poetry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she worked as an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner. Eman is one of the founders of The American University of Kuwait and part of Zayed University’s start-up team (UAE). She is also a veteran of the first Gulf War, where she served as a medic-interpreter. Her poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Aldus Journal of Translation, Blackbird, KUDZU, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mizna, Pilgrimage, and sub\/Terrain, among others.<\/p>\n