People
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Five Questions With Helen Schulman
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / January 14, 2019Helen Schulman was born in New York City, where she lives, writes, teaches. She received a BA at Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has published six nov...
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Five Questions with Theodore Kerr
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, People, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / January 9, 2019Canadian born Theodore (Ted) Kerr is a white, HIV negative, non-trans, gay man who lives in Brooklyn and works as writer, organizer, and educator, focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS and community. He fini...
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Five Questions with Kelly McHugh-Stewart
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / December 17, 2018Kelly McHugh-Stewart graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing Program in May of 2018. Formerly a sports journalist, Kelly focused on nonfiction during her time at The New School and is cu...
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Five Questions with Keisha Bush
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / December 12, 2018Keisha Bush was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives in East Harlem. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School, where she was a Riggio Honors Teaching Fe...
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Five Questions With Nico Rosario
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People / December 7, 2018Nico Rosario is an artist, researcher, and activist, whose work meets at the intersections of creative arts, politics, culture, and education, with a focus on youth and subcultures. A writer and p...
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Five Questions With Honor Moore
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, Nonfiction, People / December 4, 2018Honor Moore's most recent book is The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent collection of poems is Red Shoes. She was a chief consultant f...
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Five Questions With Richard Tayson
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, People, Poetry / November 29, 2018Richard Tayson’s essays “Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction” and ”the volcano sequence as Fragmentary, Postmodern (and Yes, Feminist) Text” appear this fall in TheFix.com an...
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Five Questions with Mira Jacob
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People / November 20, 2018Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata F...
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Five Questions With Victoria Richards
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / November 7, 2018Victoria Richards is a poet, freelance writer and second-year MFA Creative Writing student at The New School. She holds a BS degree in Public Relations from St. John’s University. Victoria has a passi...
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Five Questions With Robert Polito
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / October 29, 2018Robert Polito is a poet, essayist, editor, and biographer. Recent books include the poetry collection Hollywood & God and Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. He...
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Five Questions With Darren Lyons
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / October 15, 2018Darren Lyons is from Akron, OH. He's rambled since, but he's currently an MFA student in the Creative Writing Program of The New School in New York, NY and is the MFA Saturday Workshop Coordinator thi...
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Five Questions with Leah Iannone
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / October 2, 2018Leah Iannone received her MFA in poetry from The New School’s Creative Writing Program. She currently works as Director of Academic Planning at The New School. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, 12th ...
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Five Questions With Aditi Sriram
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene / September 24, 2018Aditi Sriram teaches Critical Thinking and Creative Writing at Ashoka. She has written for several international publications including The Washington Post, The New York ...
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Five Questions With Susan Shapiro
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Faculty, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 20, 2018Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author/co-author of 12 books including the acclaimed memoirs “Five Men Who Broke My Heart,” “Lighting Up” (Random House) and “The Bosnia List” (Penguin Books.) Her...
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Sigrid Nunez – National Book Awards Longlist
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 19, 2018Creative Writing faculty, Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend has been nominated for The National Book Foundation’s 2018 National Book Awards Longlist. Sigrid is currently teaching an MFA fiction...
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Creative Writing Program at 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fall 2018 events, Fiction, Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / September 7, 2018The Creative Writing program will be tabling at this year's Brooklyn Book festival. Come by booth 124 and say 'hello.' We also have several alumni or faculty participating in events and panels this...
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Five Questions With Sarah Jospitre
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / August 20, 2018Sarah Jospitre is a second-year student in the Writing For Children & Young Adults section of the MFA Creative Writing Program. Recently, she has completed an internship in the editorial dep...
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5 Questions with Ricky Tucker
By Nicole Drayton / in 12th Street, Graduates, Lit, MFA, Nonfiction, People, Riggio Honors, Summer 2018 Events, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / June 26, 2018Ricky Tucker is a North Carolina native, storyteller, essayist, and art critic. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments...
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5 Questions With Justin Sherwood
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, People, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony / June 19, 2018Justin Sherwood is the author of various poems and essays, including the poetry chapbook Low Theory (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016). He is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at T...
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Remembering Bean Haskell
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, Undergraduate / June 1, 2018It is with great sadness that we share news that New School student Bean River Haskell passed away on April 12, 2018, after a long illness. Bean was 31 years old, and earning their undergradu...
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