Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and School of Liberal Arts (SOLA)
Afternoon Craft Conversation with Rachel Howard
Part of the Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series
Date & Time
-
Location (On-campus)
About
Please Note: This event was rescheduled from Wednesday, November 6th to Wednesday, November 20th.
Join SMC's Creative Writing Department in Hagerty Lounge for an Afternoon Craft Conversation with visiting writer Rachel Howard, author of The Risk of Us and 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, as she discusses her art, life, and writing process.
Rachel Howard is the author of a novel, The Risk of Us, and a memoir about her father's unsolved murder, The Lost Night. A 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellow in literature, she has published short fiction and nonfiction in Zyzzyva, StoryQuarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times Magazine, among other venues. She earned an MFA in fiction at the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and later served there as Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow and Interim Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing.
Visiting Writer events at Saint Mary's are free, open to the public, and ADA Accessible. Visitor parking is available on campus and light refreshments will be served. All attendees are eligible for a fee waiver for the MFA in Creative Writing application—please reach out to Collin Skeen, Assistant Director of Admissions, at cas38@stmarys-ca.edu for more information.