…Poets” by Essence magazine in honor of its fortieth anniversary. This week she will receive her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Vanderbilt University. Pruitt lives with her…
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Looking Forward to a Life in Poetry
Vanderbilt grad student Stephanie Pruitt garners national recognition
…the university created its M.F.A. program in creative writing. She made up her mind to apply. It turned out to be the right decision. Not only has the program become…
Not Your Father's Fugitive
Vanderbilt MFA candidates launch a new literary magazine
…a daunting project the students “conceived of, pursued, and brought into being all by themselves,” says poet—and Vanderbilt professor of creative writing—Kate Daniels. As a web-based journal, Nashville Review features…
Vandy on a Roll
What’s new in Tennessee books—and at Chapter 16—on February 25, 2010
…Sonny Payne, host of the King Biscuit Time radio show, and artists Lonnie Brooks, Charles Musselwhite, and Bonnie Raitt. Not surprisingly, poet Mark Jarman, director of Vanderbilt’s creative writing program,…
Against Closure
In a new story collection, Lorraine López writes with nuance about loneliness and dislocation
…no picnic for many of her finely drawn characters to clean up the messes others have fecklessly abandoned. López, who teaches creative writing and literature at Vanderbilt University, is the…
Peacekeeping
What’s new in Tennessee books—and at Chapter 16—on November 5, 2009
…aspiring writers at Vanderbilt received their own good news this week: Poets & Writers magazine named the university’s fledgling MFA in Creative Writing program one of the nation’s Top 20….
