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Five Questions with Jhon Valdes Klinger
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 28, 2020Jhon Valdes Klinger is a Colombian storyteller, filmmaker, educator, and writer. He is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction from the New School’s Writing Program. He was a Riggio Writing and Dem...
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Interview with TNS After Hours Coordinators
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 26, 2020Interview with TNS After Hours Coordinators by Carissa Chesanek Virginia “Vinny” Valenzuela and Alex Vara open up about the off-campus reading series, the literary bar it’s held at, and the w...
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Five Questions with LaVonne Roberts
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 19, 2020LaVonne Elaine Roberts is an American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist. She is LIT Magazine’s Live with LIT Editor, Cagibi Lit’s Interviews Edit...
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Interview with Creative Writing Alumni Sam Farahmand by Carissa Chesanek
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 6, 2020Sam Farahmand on “Standing Out From the Sameness of Everything” By Carissa Chesanek New School MFA alum, Sam Farahmand recently published his debut novel, Chimero in January 2020. Carissa C...
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Five Questions with Whitney Kenerly
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 6, 2020Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Whitney Kenerly is a writer, music critic, and journalist. 1. Who is your favorite villain, and who is your favorite protagonist in literatur...
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Five Questions With Matthew Futterman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 16, 2020Matthew Futterman is a native New Yorker, who earned his MFA in Writing for Children from The New School in 2015. He also holds a Masters in Mechanical and Bio Engineering from Georgia Tech, have...
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Five Questions With Minerva Martinez
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 1, 2020Minerva Martinez is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Evergreen Review, W42ST Magazine and Newtown Literary Journal. 1. Who is your favorite villain, and who...
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Five Questions With Ahmad Al-Ashqar
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2020Ahmad Al-Ashqar is a nomadic, romantic, illmatic Palestinian-American poet-translator. Soon after his birth in Kuwait, at the start of the Gulf War his family was displaced to Jordan before movin...
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Five Questions with Ellen Hagan
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / November 13, 2019Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of two poetry collections: Crowned and Hemisphere, and Watch Us Rise, a YA collaboration with Renée Watson. She has a poetry co...
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Five Questions with Charlotte Slivka
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / October 9, 2019* Illustration Credit: Lisa Brown Charlotte Slivka is from Manhattan and now lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, two cats and her partner (cast in order of appearance). She likes to think ab...
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THE NEW SCHOOL @ BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
By Nicole Drayton / in 12th Street, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, MFA, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / September 10, 2019Writing at The New School is proud to be featured at the Brooklyn Book Festival once again this year! Find us at the book fair on Sunday, September 22nd from 10AM to 6PM (booth #335), w...
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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 third-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in both Writing for Children and Young Adults and Nonfiction. They ar...
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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 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 Dianca London Potts
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / February 11, 2019Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominee and a Best Small Fictions finalist for 2016. She is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, the former pros...
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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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