Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

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Jana M. Van der Veer
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jvanderv@lesley.edu
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Highlights
  • Sara Farizan's ('12) as yet untitled YA novel is tentatively scheduled to be published by Algonquin Books in Fall 2013.
  • Writing for Stage and Screen faculty Kate Snodgrass won the 2012 Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence.
  • Laura Wainwright's book of essays about Martha's Vineyard, Home Bird: Four Seasons on Martha's Vineyard, is available from Vineyard Stories.
  • Claudia Rueda's ('10) latest picture book, Huff and Puff, has been published by Abrams. Her picture book NO is the recipeint of Italy's Nati per Leggere (Born to Read) Award. 
  • Charlene Donaghy's ('10) ten-minute play, "Who You Got to Believe," is included in The Best American Short Plays (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2011).
  • Michael Graves' ('07) collection of stories, Dirty One, is available from Chelsea Station Editions. He is also a finalist for the 24th Lambda Literary Awards.
  • Melanie Henderson's ('10) Elegies for New York Avenue, won the 2011 Main Street Rag poetry award (Main Street Rag Press).
  • Poets & Writers magazine names Lesley in the top ten low-residency writing programs.
  • The Creative Writing MFA Handbook cites Lesley as one of "the more distinguished low-residency programs."

 

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