Such great news all around! Cathy, we owe you so much thanks. And
thanks, Jody, for organizing us prose folks through the new system!
TS
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Bates, Joseph <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> WHOA!!
>
> And, HUZZAH! That is absolutely incredible news.
>
> Cheers to us,
> Jody
>
> Dr. Joseph Bates
> Assistant Professor, Creative Writing
> Miami University
> Department of English
> Oxford, OH 45056
> (513) 529-5852
> [log in to unmask]
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Schloss, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Cathy,
>>
>> I just wish this (MFA) had occurred many years ago. It changes
>> everything--at least in terms of admissions and health of the program. Yes
>> Garth Greenwell's book was well received beyond our expectations.And
>> happily,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Cathy Wagner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Indeed, and we are just getting started. Haven't promoted the res MFA
>>> much yet. So this is all just Google searches. It's astounding. Poetry apps
>>> doubled. And the quality was notably higher.
>>>
>>> It'll be good to see you at the Garth event. It must have been great to
>>> see all the press Garth's gotten! you did a good thing there.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Schloss, David <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Cathy,
>>>>
>>>> What a difference an MFA makes! Congratulations to you all from an
>>>> interested onlooker. See you March 7 for Garth Greenwell reading
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Cathy Wagner <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Grad meeting went as well as it could have gone. We can get DEPs for
>>>>> four students: Fergesen, Manzler, Fuentes, and Flemings. That gives us 2
>>>>> extra lines. So we have a total of 10 lines for CW, and Madelyn allowed us
>>>>> to over-admit by 2. So we are admitting 12 today.
>>>>>
>>>>> The list is below. Their emails are on the Top-ranked page on the
>>>>> spreadsheet, and as soon as I get the word that the emails have gone out,
>>>>> please start writing recruiting emails to students in your genre and to any
>>>>> other of the admitted students you would like to see come here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Congrats all! this is a very promising start to the MFA. We got 50 apps
>>>>> including Kyle Flemings, which is more than half the total grad apps in
>>>>> English.
>>>>>
>>>>> Prose
>>>>> Jennifer Fergesen F (DEP)
>>>>> Marianne Manzler CNF (DEP
>>>>> John Fuentes F
>>>>> Uchechukwu Okonko F
>>>>> David Grandouiller CNF
>>>>> Jason Nafziger F
>>>>>
>>>>> MG
>>>>> Heba Alhayek
>>>>> Paul Vogel
>>>>>
>>>>> Poetry
>>>>> Rebecca Valley
>>>>> Madeline Lewis (we'll try for a GSSA, the grad school achievement
>>>>> fellowship, for her)
>>>>> Joanna Lew
>>>>> Kyle Flemings
>>>>>
>>>>> Top of waitlist (this is not in order — we'll wait to see who says no
>>>>> before deciding on next admits):
>>>>> Leah Christianson F
>>>>> Amy Bailey CNF
>>>>> Freda Epum CNF/P
>>>>> Emma Heldman P
>>>>> Kyle Swensen F
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
--
Dr. TaraShea Nesbit
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Miami University
www.tarasheanesbit.com
Creative Writing at Miami
MU Creative Writing Twitter feed @MiamiOH_CW
English Department Events Calendar
|
