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Zachary Ash
Zachary Ash is the pseudonym of James Hollwig, who will be a first-year MFA student this fall, with a concentration in fiction. He is from California. His interests are geology, jazz, and historical novels. His favorite writer is Cormac McCarthy.
Jamie Berger
Jamie Berger reads, plays, writes, and saloonkeeps in Turners Falls, MA. His first book, Bo’s Arts is really great, but it’s mostly other people’s visual art all about his dog. Buy dog books and find more of Mr. Berger’s words at: jamiebergerwords.com
Michael Carolan
Michael Carolan will graduate from the UMass Fiction program in ‘08.
Amy Dickinson
Tour for the Lepidopterist in August
Gabe Durham
Ari Feld
Ari Feld wishes to thank you for reading poetry. He also encourages you to show the poems you find meaningful to those you love and even strangers. Drink responsibly.
Kate Garklavs
Kate Garklavs is a first year in the fiction program. She likes writing, jellyfish, and laying out in abandoned fields. Her ultimate aspiration is to be credited as the individual who popularized the greeting, “Yo heeeeeey!”
Good Stewards of the Earth
Kim Hagerich
“Kim retains the brachial dimensions of Abraham Lincoln.”
Haesong Kwon
Haesong Kwon used to live on Graves Ave., Northampton, MA.
Seth Landman
One more go-round for the plow
Gustavo Llarull
Gustavo Llarull was born and raised in Argentina, where he studied philosophy and held a variety of jobs (ESL teacher, freelance translator, rock band manager). Later, he divided his time between research in philosophy at a public university, and journalism. In 2002, at age 29, he came to the States to pursue graduate studies in philosophy. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of California (2007), he moved to New England. He is currently an MFA candidate (Fiction) at UMass-Amherst.
On My Bowels as Cognitive Resources (And Unassuming Moral Compass)
Kyle McCord
Kyle McCord is from Des Moines, Iowa. He is entering his second year in the MFA Program.
Brian Mihok
The Collapse (or An Excerpt From The Postwar Sessions)
e.m. monteiro
Anjali Khosla Mullany
Anjali Khosla Mullany was born in 1980. She grew up in Massachusetts and Minnesota.
Ashwati Parameshwar
Ashwati Parameshwar is going into her third year at the UMass MFA program. She has no idea what she will be doing at the end of that year and is doing a wonderful job keeping this ignorance intact. She has almost never been published and is excited to see her name in print in front of something that is not a term paper.
Boomer Pinches
Another Thing About Your Wife
Eboni G. Rafus
Eboni is a third year in Fiction, and is finally getting a hang of this whole writing thing. As a matter of fact, she’s enjoying the program so much that she has decided to return for a fourth year. In addition to teaching College Writing 112 and an Experimental workshop, Eboni works at the Graduate Student Senate as the Graduate Women’s Network Coordinator, participates in the Vagina Monologues as both actor and assistant director, and organizes readings for writers of color.
Emily Renaud
On My Living Room Floor I Dabbled In Witchcraft
An Afternoon at Sugamo Prison, Summer 1947
Chrysoberyl, My Lover Contained
Patrick Robbins
Patrick Robbins is in his final year of UMass’s MFA program. He spent his undergraduate years at Colby College, where he studied with Richard Russo and Jennifer (nee James) Boylan. After graduation, he hopes to go off the grid and work on the Pretty Damn Good American Novel. When it comes to agriculture, Robbins has a tar-black, precancerous thumb. Nevertheless, he will always have fond memories associated with the movie Footloose
Mark Rosenberg
Mark Rosenberg is a graduating MFA student. Everyone will remember him by his tendinitis and brevity.
SOMETHING VAGUE AND INCORPOREAL INSINUATES ITSELF INTO THE AFTERNOON
Jonathan Tosch
“I love boxes and I love hats, but I do not love hatboxes. I am temporarily broke and doing nothing about it.”
