Drew Arnold is a fiction writer in the UMass-Boston MFA program. For those
keeping track, his basil plants are doing better this year, thanks for
asking. The thing that angers him most about this cruel, unfeeling world
is when he misses readings by his favorite authors. He recently started a
listserv announcing upcoming fiction readings in the Boston area, which you can sign up for by clicking here.
(He doesn't plug often, but when he does, he plugs shamelessly).
Marija Deykute, also known as Morie and "that Russian", is a 2nd-year poetry student at
UMass Boston, where she also teaches Creative Writing. In her spare
time Marija eats pickled herring, wrestles bears and obsesses. Current
obsessions include theater, tallships, and small overgrown lakes. If the
whole poet thing doesn't work out, Marija plans to tree climb
professionally.
Aaron Krol is an MFA candidate at Emerson
College. He writes formal poems, poems about animals, very often both
at once and just occasionally neither. His poetry can be found in the
Carolina Quarterly, Lucid Rhythms, Ghost Ocean, and forthcoming
in Measure, and he himself can often be found at Eureka Puzzles in
Brookline, where he sells board games when he is not too busy playing
them.
Sara Rivera is a writer and artist working on her MFA in Poetry at
Boston University. Writing is her lifelong adventure, and she is
grateful for this opportunity to collaborate with brilliant artists
while generating music through language. Sara has come to Boston from
the desert and mountains of New Mexico, and is currently influenced by
the work of Seamus Heaney, James Dickey, Edward Abbey, Isabel Allende,
and (always, above all else) J.R.R. Tolkien.
Nell Stevens is an MFA candidate in fiction at
Boston University where she is a Marcia Trimble fellow. She holds a BA
in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of
Warwick, a Frank Knox Fellowship in Arabic language from Harvard
University and an MA in Victorian studies from the University of London.
Her focus is on long fiction and she is currently working on her third
novel.
Laura Tetreault is a third-year MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Emerson College. She also teaches in Emerson's First-Year Writing Program, tutors, and works as an editorial assistant and research assistant. This year she will be working on her thesis, a nonfiction book that explores themes of belief and doubt in a contemporary context. She is the recipient of an Emerson College Graduate Writing Award in poetry, and her work has recently appeared in Interrobang. She plans to read a mix of nonfiction and poetry.
