MFA Italian Villa Raffle

Visit the MFA Raffle Page and enter to win a week-long stay at Altabella Italian Villas in Tuscany, Italy.

You do not need to be present to win. In honor of the sesquicentennial, tickets are $63.00 and only 350 will be sold.  Purchase 10 tickets and receive a 3 dollars discount per ticket!

Amber Parker, Bethany Ruthnick, Courtney Jameson, Brandon Williams, and Keegan Brookes

Please join us for a MFA Open House Happy Hour with wine, cheese, and music!  Have questions about the application process or the MFA program in general?  Alumni of our program will be on site to tell you about their student experience and let you know how their MFA influenced their lives after graduation.  Professors Marilyn Abildskov (creative nonfiction), Brenda Hillman (poetry), and Lysley Tenorio (fiction) will also be there to answer your questions.  

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER is the managing director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor at A Public Space. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper's, jubilat, Tin House and elsewhere. His first book of poems, A Hotel in Belgium, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2014. He graduated from Saint Mary's MFA program in 2007.

SUSAN GRIFFIN'S most recent work is an anthology she co-edited, Transforming Terror: Remember the Soul of the World. Among her 19 books, A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Northern California Book Award. Celebrated for her elegant prose as well as her innovations in literary form, she has been the recipient of an NEA Grant, a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

LOU BERNEY is the author of the novels Gutshot Straight and Whiplash River. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The New England Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and elsewhere. He has written feature screenplays and created TV pilots for, among others, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Focus Features, ABC and Fox. Currently, he teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Oklahoma City University.