People
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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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Five Questions With John Reed
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 19, 2018John Reed is author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster), Snowball's Chance (Melville House); All The World's A Grave (Penguin); Tales of Woe (MTV Press); Free Boat...
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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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PHOTOS: 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS READING
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene / November 16, 2016The MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School was honored to host the 67th National Book Awards 2016 Finalists Reading on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. One of the most anticipated events of the ...
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#6WordMemoir Winners from Woodstock Writers Festival 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 12, 2016This year, The New School Creative Writing program was a featured presenter at the Woodstock Writers Festival. We challenged festival attendees to tweet us their best #6WordMemoir, and we got some gre...
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New titles from Bloof Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Poetry / October 26, 2015Bloof Books (edited by '02 poetry alumni Shanna Compton) has announced their fall titles: Sharon Mesmer, Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place Jennifer L. Knox, Days of Shame & Failur...
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Teacher-Student Book Tour: Susan Shapiro and Aspen Matis
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / September 8, 2015This week, New School student Aspen Matis will embark on any young writer's dream: a joint book tour with her teacher, bestselling author Susan Shapiro. Shapiro, a Distinguished Teaching Award reci...
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MFA ’03 Alum Sean Manning of Rhapsody Magazine Featured in The New York Times
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, Nonfiction, People / May 6, 2015MFA in Creative Writing '03 alum Sean Manning was profiled in a New York Times feature of Rhapsody Magazine, for which he serves as Executive Editor. Rhapsody Magazine brings literary fictio...
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The New School In Conversation with We Need Diverse Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 29, 2015Written by Alison Doherty, a first year student in The New School’s Writing for Children MFA program. More than half of the students in US schools are people of color, but the latest available stud...
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Luis Jaramillo Talks to Heather Abel, Author of Gut Instincts
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 10, 2015MFA in Creative Writing Director Luis Jaramillo talked with Heather Abel, MFA ‘01, about her recent Kindle Single, Gut Instincts: Dispatches From the Wide-Open Space Between Sickness and Healt...
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