As I review document after document in my final - paperwork - semester of my MFA, I've been thinking back on all that it took to get here to this final stretch towards graduation. When I started my MFA at Stony Brook University, just over two years ago, I’d set out with the very specific goal of learning… Continue reading Thesis: The Paperwork Semester
Image: Sebastien Wiertz On the night of the election, I didn’t want to watch the election results roll in alone, so I went to a viewing held by a group English graduate students. Although I didn’t know the people at the gathering very well—most of them I had never met before and the few that… Continue reading Oh, Bigoted New World
Image: Farid Iqbal Ibrahim My decision to pursue my MFA in creative writing was an easy one. I was working full-time and making use of my bachelor's degree, but it felt like some key aspect of my life was missing. My creative writing skills had stagnated and I hadn’t written anything new in months. The… Continue reading An Imperfect Guide to Balancing Work and the MFA
It speaks to the newness of comics in academia that my MFA program is only four years old, with this summer being only its second graduating class. You'd be hard pressed to find any comics graduate programs created further than five years ago. It's this nascent quality I found most appealing and why I chose… Continue reading School’s In For Summer
“I won’t get started./history is what it is. It knows what it did”- Danez Smith I hate hot takes, and have tried to avoid the firing from the hip school of analysis for the length of this slow panic attack we have called a year. I am aware enough to know it’s not a hot… Continue reading How to Be a Black Boy in an MFA Program in Mississippi in (Trump’s America) The America You Have Always Known
