Check out Stella's piece “Cheers” feautured in The Furious Gazelle
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What kind of work are they publishing? Some have published young adult, middle grade, graphic novels. Some are New York Times bestsellers. Some have won prestigious poetry prizes. Read about them here.
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Stella Santamaría MFA Poetry '20
Stella Santamaría is the daughter of Cuban and Guatemalan immigrants. Stella was born in Los Angeles and raised in Miami. Santamaría was a Teaching Assistant under Brenda Hillman. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry studying with Matthew Zapruder as well. Her poetry has been recently published in Juked, The Brooklyn Review, The Furious Gazelle, Pennsylvania English, The Courtship of Winds, Cathexis Northwest Press and The Rumpus. Santamaría performed spoken word in the Lab in San Francisco and in New York City at the Nuyorican Poets Café. She was featured in the HBO Films and CNN Documentary Latino in America. Stella's News: Her book, In Between Spaces was published in 2014 Her poem “Ginger Moon Bulb” was published in The Brooklyn Review in 2019
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“As a Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) fellow in the MFA in Creative Writing program, I was able to promote and be part of the present Asian...
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Artwork (above): “One World” by Rocky Zi Yuan Wan, age 12. Hong Kong. China. 2019 ROW Finalist...
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Vicki Hudson, MFA nonfiction '08, is many things—Army veteran, rugby coach, mom—and part of what holds all these identities together is the...
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Students from all disciplines gathered in Hagerty Lounge last week to learn the ins and outs of the entertainment industry from a panel of...
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