She taught in and helped mold UMSL’s Master of Fine Arts program for more than 20 years and also served as editor of Natural Bridge for a decade.
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She taught in and helped mold UMSL’s Master of Fine Arts program for more than 20 years and also served as editor of Natural Bridge for a decade.
She taught in and helped mold UMSL’s Master of Fine Arts program for more than 20 years and also served as editor of Natural Bridge for a decade.
She taught in and helped mold UMSL’s Master of Fine Arts program for more than 20 years and also served as editor of Natural Bridge for a decade.
The online course targeted toward helping young professionals grow their leadership skills meets on Thursdays during the lunch hour.
The award is presented to up to three staff or faculty members each month in recognition of their efforts to transform the lives of UMSL students and the wider community.
The award is presented to up to three staff or faculty members each month in recognition of their efforts to transform the lives of UMSL students and the wider community.
The award is presented to up to three staff or faculty members each month in recognition of their efforts to transform the lives of UMSL students and the wider community.
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
Molly Harris organized three Zoom readings featuring 17 writers and translators from the literary journal’s 2019-2020 issues.
Serenity Dougherty, Dora Holland, Devon Pham and Nicole Ramer will focus on comedy and identity, fantasy, digital media and public writing, respectively.
Focus St. Louis is recognizing Inda Schaenen and her nonprofit, Project Lab St. Louis, in the Improving Equity and Inclusion category.
A diverse group of high schoolers learned about expression across many forms of media during a three-week course at UMSL at Grand Center.
The 174-page collection of poems, published by 2Leaf Press, brings together his passion for writing and interest in culture, heightened by his experiences majoring in anthropology.
The MFA in Creative Writing program is celebrating 20 years of giving rise to new voices and more than 50 books.
Mary Grace Buckley will test her trivia knowledge on an episode of “Jeopardy!” that airs later this month.
Ron Austin is one of 10 local artists to receive a $20,000 artist fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission.
His visit for the Gallery 210-based reading is part of a series planned by a group of MFA faculty members and graduate students.
Christopher Alex Chablé started writing poems to take a break from academic writing. Now he’s the 2015 UMSL poet laureate.
Award-winning debut novelist Anthony Marra (left) visited UMSL MFA in Creative Writing students including Matthew Vivian and read at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters.
Associate Professor of English John Dalton (right) and alumnus Ryan Krull, MFA 2014, taught a five-week creative writing seminar over the summer at Fudan University in Shanghai.
The prominent literary magazine december is warming up with the help of Gianna Jacobson, MFA 2010.
Alumna Lauren Wiser, MFA 2013, served as managing editor for issues 29 and 30 of the literary journal produced by the university.
Whether you’re a fan of poetry or fiction, you’ll get the best of both worlds Monday at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Poet Sally Van Doren, MFA 2000, and fiction writer Ron Austin, MFA 2011, will read for the upcoming installment of the Monday Noon Series.
Dreaming up fiction is usually the job of Mary Troy, professor of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Designing and establishing an MFA in Creative Writing program at UMSL, well, that is anything but fiction.
University of Missouri–St. Louis alumna Jennifer Tappenden, MFA 2012, reads her poem "Making Glass" Feb. 12 in the...
Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets...
John Dalton considers himself a lucky guy. Take 2011. It’s been a great year for the University of Missouri–St. Louis...
Angie O'Gorman is a student, activist and theologian. And now she is a novelist. O'Gorman spent five years writing...