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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Alumni Q&A: Writer Mary Troy reflects on story inspirations, shaping UMSL’s MFA program and more
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.
Alumni Q&A: Writer Mary Troy reflects on story inspirations, shaping UMSL’s MFA program and more
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.
Music education major Alex Wurl striving to get more children involved in performing arts
Wurl, who works with St. Louis Children’s Choirs and the Des Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative, is student teaching at Barretts Elementary in Manchester during his final semester at UMSL.
Valerie Dratwick, Wayne North and Jason Wagstaff receive UMSL Hero Awards
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.
Valerie Dratwick, Wayne North and Jason Wagstaff receive UMSL Hero Awards
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.
Valerie Dratwick, Wayne North and Jason Wagstaff receive UMSL Hero Awards
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.
Felia Davenport to exhibit ‘Torn Mixology’ as 2021-2022 Kranzberg Resident Artist
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
Felia Davenport to exhibit ‘Torn Mixology’ as 2021-2022 Kranzberg Resident Artist
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
Felia Davenport to exhibit ‘Torn Mixology’ as 2021-2022 Kranzberg Resident Artist
The multimedia exhibit explores Davenport’s multiracial identity and will feature seven handmade pieces of clothing that represent different points in her life.
Boulevard and UMSL MFA program enter new partnership
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
Boulevard and UMSL MFA program enter new partnership
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
Boulevard and UMSL MFA program enter new partnership
Under the partnership, students enrolled in “English 5190: Literary Journal Editing” will read submissions for Boulevard and be credited as editorial assistants.
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Natural Bridge managing editor builds virtual community through online reading series
Molly Harris organized three Zoom readings featuring 17 writers and translators from the literary journal’s 2019-2020 issues.
Four May graduates from Department of English heading to PhD programs
Serenity Dougherty, Dora Holland, Devon Pham and Nicole Ramer will focus on comedy and identity, fantasy, digital media and public writing, respectively.
Alumna earns What’s Right with the Region honor for work in Normandy schools
Focus St. Louis is recognizing Inda Schaenen and her nonprofit, Project Lab St. Louis, in the Improving Equity and Inclusion category.
St. Louis teens create and collaborate through Gateway Writing Project’s OneCity Stories program
A diverse group of high schoolers learned about expression across many forms of media during a three-week course at UMSL at Grand Center.
MFA alumnus Jason Vasser-Elong explores his family’s origins and own experiences in debut book, ‘shrimp’
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.
Cultivating the next writers of the literary world
The MFA in Creative Writing program is celebrating 20 years of giving rise to new voices and more than 50 books.
Alumna continues family tradition as ‘Jeopardy!’ contestant
Mary Grace Buckley will test her trivia knowledge on an episode of “Jeopardy!” that airs later this month.
Writing the divide: North St. Louisan, MFA alumnus wins RAC artist fellowship
Ron Austin is one of 10 local artists to receive a $20,000 artist fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission.
Acclaimed poet Joshua Mehigan gives reading on campus Oct. 28
His visit for the Gallery 210-based reading is part of a series planned by a group of MFA faculty members and graduate students.
From hobbyist to UMSL’s 2015 poet laureate
Christopher Alex Chablé started writing poems to take a break from academic writing. Now he’s the 2015 UMSL poet laureate.
National award-winning novelist visits MFA students
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.
A little bit of UMSL in Shanghai
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.
MFA alumna breathes new life into december magazine
The prominent literary magazine december is warming up with the help of Gianna Jacobson, MFA 2010.
Former editor, now Left Bank Books publicist talks latest UMSL Natural Bridge issue
Alumna Lauren Wiser, MFA 2013, served as managing editor for issues 29 and 30 of the literary journal produced by the university.
Noon series to host poetry, fiction reading
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.
How UMSL’s own grew an MFA program, a space for writers beyond the page
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.
Eye on UMSL: ‘Making Glass’
University of Missouri–St. Louis alumna Jennifer Tappenden, MFA 2012, reads her poem "Making Glass" Feb. 12 in the...
Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time
Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets...
Through the woods with John Dalton: MFA in Creative Writing director writes second novel, ‘The Inverted Forest’
John Dalton considers himself a lucky guy. Take 2011. It’s been a great year for the University of Missouri–St. Louis...
UMSL graduate student writes first novel
Angie O'Gorman is a student, activist and theologian. And now she is a novelist. O'Gorman spent five years writing...
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