People
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Five Questions With Basil Soper
By Nicole Drayton / in People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / May 14, 2019Basil is a southern man of transgender experience, writer, photographer, and the Executive Director of Transilient. He’s an astrology enthusiast and he grew up in rural South Carolina and was hom...
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Five Questions with Cheree Stevenson
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / May 9, 2019My name is Cheree', I am second year Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA student in my thesis semester! I have an undergraduate degree in history education and I write speculative fiction i...
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Five Questions With Medina
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / May 7, 2019Medina is a nonbinary queer Latinx writer (they/them/their). They are a first-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults. They are the 2019 winner of...
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Five Questions With Christopher X. Shade
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, People, TNS Lit Scene / May 1, 2019The writer Christopher X. Shade (USA), New York, New York, May 25, 2018. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Christopher X. Shade is author of the novel The Good Mother of Marseille (Paloma Press, 201...
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Five Questions with Ivan Brave
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 16, 2019Iván Brave lives in New York, where he writes poetry, reviews, and novels, as well as teaches English to international students. He is a graduate of New School, earning his Master in Fine Arts for C...
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Five Questions With Randy Winston
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 9, 2019Randy Winston is the Associate Fiction Editor at Slice Literary Magazine, creator of Milkshake Scholar, and a first grade hula hoop champion ('92-'93). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing ...
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Five Questions With Mishka Anthony
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 1, 2019Mishka Anthony is an MFA poetry candidate at The New School currently living in Flushing, Queens. She is working on a collection of poetry and essays on the transgender experience and has become ...
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Five Questions with Marie-Helene Bertino
By Nicole Drayton / in People / March 25, 2019Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 A.M. AT THE CAT’S PAJAMAS and the story collection SAFE AS HOUSES, and was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Irel...
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Five Questions With Mae Coyiuto
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 12, 2019Mae Coyiuto is a Chinese-Filipino writer, born and raised in the Philippines. She is a second-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She loves w...
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Five Questions With Caron Levis
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 7, 2019Caron Levis is the author of the picture books, Stop That Yawn! (Atheneum, 2018); May I Have A Word? (FSG), Stuck with the Blooz (HMH), and Ida, Alwa...
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Five Questions With Daniel Gee Husson
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / February 19, 2019Daniel Gee Husson is a playwright, director, and dramaturg who also writes short stories and the occasional poem. He was a Riggio scholar and graduated from the New School in 2015. He recently recei...
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Five Questions With Antonia Wright
By Nicole Drayton / in MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / February 1, 2019Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 as well as at the International Center of Photogra...
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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 Fell...
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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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