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Her debut novel SEA CHANGE was a 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Pick and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book. Gina is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. Plus, Gina offers advice for making the most of your MFA experience. She and Jared discuss how her experience in publishing shaped her understanding of the business of writing and the importance of a trusted writing community. You can find more MFA Writers at .Įmail: Chung, debut author of the speculative novel SEA CHANGE, tells Jared how the book began with a writing prompt in her MFA program and how her fellow students encouraged her to turn it into a novel. New episodes are released every two weeks. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. Credits at the Wilma include Romeo and Juliet, Dance Nation and Minor Character, and you can also catch her on HBO’s Mare of Easttown. She’s the recipient of a Drama Desk Award, a TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, a Barrymore Award, an Independence Fellowship, and a NEFA Touring Grant. She is a member of the Wilma Theatre’s HotHouse Company, a founding member of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and Co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum Projects, whose works include Drama Desk-nominated Chimera, and The Wholehearted. Suli Holum is a Philadelphia-based director, performer, choreographer and playwright who recently graduated with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Goddard College in Vermont where she was the recipient of the 2020 Engaged Artist Award. She and Jared also talk about the details of Goddard’s creative and craft assignments, and how students in this low-res program still get teaching experience.

You can find more MFA Writers at .Įmail: it like to pursue a low-residency MFA when you’re a collaborative playwright and performer? On this episode, Suli Holum describes devised work, partnerships between writers and actors, and how she created a piece based on her research in the oil fields of North Dakota. Find him at his website,, and on Twitter at Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. A New Orleans native, Maurice is a professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at Louisiana State University and a faculty member in Randolph College’s low-residency M.F.A. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize, among others. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the Story Prize. It was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the Ernest J. Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was published by One World Random House in August 2021. Finally, Maurice offers advice on what makes someone a successful MFA student, and where emerging writers should devote their energy.

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Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application.Įmail: Carlos Ruffin, author and faculty member at two MFA programs, joins Jared for this special episode about Maurice’s multi-year journey from corporate lawyer to professional writer (with plenty of rejection in between), the role of a creative writing professor in guiding students’ work, and the criticality of retaining joy in our writing, despite the challenges of publication, deadlines, and stories that just aren’t working. If there’s a program you’d like to learn more about, contact us and we’ll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Find him at his website,, and on Twitter Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. In addition, he is the 2023 Artist-in-Resident for Ocean Network's Canada, where he writes about the ecology and history of the abyssal regions of the Pacific Ocean. He's an MFA student at the University of Victoria, working on a book-length lyric essay about extinction. A former finalist for CBC's Poetry Prize and multiple Alberta Magazine Awards, his writing has appeared throughout Canada and Western Europe. Neil Griffin is a poet, essayist, and former wildlife biologist. Plus, Neil talks about whether “creative nonfiction' is a useful label, the pros and cons of a small program, and UVic’s emphasis on training students in creative writing pedagogy. MFA Writers is going to Canada! Neil Griffin, wildlife biologist turned poet and essayist, tells Jared about how both ecology and writing require patience, openness, and vision.