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MFA Alumna Deena ElGenaidi launches “Codependent” Web Series
2016 MFA alumna Deena ElGenaidi is the writer, editor, and director of Codependent, a new web series exploring the lives of women of color living in Philadelphia. Read more at NJ Monthly.
MFA Alumna Mimi Mondal Nominated for a Nebula Award
MFA alumna (’18) Mimi Mondal has been named a finalist in the 55th Nebula Awards for her novelette “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light.” Awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 30. Congratulations, Mimi! Read more.
RUC MFA Alumna Hired as New Director of Mighty Writers Camden
Catherine Buck, an alumna of the Rutgers-Camden MFA in Creative Writing Program (’18) has been hired as the new Program Director of Mighty Writers Camden. Mighty Writers, the Philadelphia-based organization focused on teaching young people to write with clarity, opened its Camden chapter, its first in New Jersey, in spring 2018 at the Nick Virgilio … Continue reading RUC MFA Alumna Hired as New Director of Mighty Writers Camden…
MFA Alumnus Michael Haeflinger Publishes Collection of Poems
Blue Cactus Press will publish Low Static Range, a collection of poems by MFA alumnus Michael Haeflinger (’12), in September. The author of two chapbooks, Haeflinger is also the Executive Director of Write253, a literary arts organization in Tacoma, Washington.
Debut novel by alumna Micaiah Johnson to be published in 2020
2016 MFA alumna Micaiah Johnson’s debut science fiction novel, The Space Between Worlds, has been acquired by UK publisher Hodder and Stoughton, with US rights selling to Crown. The novel is planned for a simultaneous publication in the US and UK in 2020. Read more here.