MCW Alum Domenica Ruta’s new novel Last Day was reviewed by Terese Svoboda in The New York Times. Read the review here:

“A Darkly Glittering Novel That Imagines the Earth’s Final Hours”

MCW Alum F. T. Kola was awarded a Stegner Fellowship for 2019-2021.

F.T. Kola was born in South Africa and grew up in Australia. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2015 and received a Miles Morland foundation grant in 2017. Her work has been published by One Story, The Guardian and Granta. She is currently at work on her first novel.

MCW Alum Virginia Reeves’ new novel The Behavior of Love: A Novel was reviewed in The New Yorker by Katy Waldman. Virginia Reeves received an MFA from the Michener Center in 2012.

Read the review here:
Virginia Reeves’s New Novel Explores What It Feels Like When the Mind Breaks

MCW alum Carrie Fountain was named Poet Laureate of the State of Texas. Congratulations, Carrie! More info here.

MCW Poetry Alum Anna Maria Hong was awarded the 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award for her book Age of Glass. Congratulations, Anna Maria!

Details about the award here.