Michener poetry alum Chessy Normile (MFA ’19) was named 2022-2023 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Congratulations, Chessy!

MCW playwriting alum Minghao Tu (MFA ’20) will join Rattlestick Theater as a Van Lier New Voices Fellow. Minghao was also named a Playwrights’ Center’s 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow. Congratulations, Minghao!

Michener fiction alum Rachel Heng (MFA ’20) was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Creative Writing. Congratulations, Rachel! Read more about Rachel and the NEA here.

Nathan Harris’ debut novel The Sweetness of Water is the latest pick for Oprah’s Book Club. Watch Nathan’s appearance alongside Oprah Winfrey on CBS This Morning.

MCW visiting faculty Mitchell Jackson was awarded a Pulitzer in Feature Writing for “Twelve Minutes and a Life,” a long-form piece published in Runner’s World. In Fall 2021, Mitchell Jackson will teach a graduate workshop in Nonfiction at the Michener Center.

A production of MCW Alum Reina Hardy’s play, Glass Heart, is at The Know Theatre in Cincinnati through December 12th. More details here.

MCW alum Lauren Green’s chapbook A Great Dark House was selected by Joshua Bennett for the 2021 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship Award. Read a poem from Lauren’s manuscript here. Congratulations, Lauren!

Michener Center fiction alum Rachel Heng’s story, “Before the Valley,” was published in The New Yorker. The story can be found along with an audio recording here. Rachel also discusses the story with New Yorker editor Deborah Treisman here.

Nathan Harris, a Michener alum in fiction (MFA ’20) was featured in Publishers Weekly. Read more about Nathan and his forthcoming debut novel, The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown and Company, 2021):

What Does Freedom Mean? A Debut Novel Is Asking.