January 2021 MFA Residency Guests
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program is thrilled to announce guests for its January 2021 Residency.
- Novelist and playwright
- Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for the play Disgraced
- Author of Homeland Elegies, published Sept. 8, 2020
- Whiting Award winner and Cave Canem Fellow
- Author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and The Black Maria
- Author of On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, and The World Is Round
- National Book Award for Poetry in 2011 for Head Off & Split
- Author of Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, published April 15, 2020
- Former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review
- Author of the forthcoming, A Place Like Mississippi
- Author of Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020