There is a term in my MFA program that encapsulates how they envision the program and the process of creativity. The term is “Plork.” You can read more about the ethos here, but in short, its meaning is derived from the words work and play. I want my work to stem from that—from a place …
Some writing programs have a reputation for being cutthroat and competitive. I haven’t participated in any other MFA programs, so I can’t speak from experience, but I have been in critiques that didn’t feel safe, where it felt like people don’t want you to do well. When I went to …
A requirement for all candidates in the first semester of the UB MFA program is a class called Creativity: Ways of Seeing. I’ll be honest, at first I thought it seemed kind of hokey. In real life I am quite goofy and playful. I may have even secretly yearned for someone …
I finished my inaugural semester in the MFA for Writing & Publishing program at the University of Baltimore this week. It’s hard for me to believe I finished my undergrad degree in writing & literature at Marlboro College in Vermont almost seventeen years ago. That’s nearly half my life ago! I turned forty at the …
