Columbia Faculty Selects
Nominated by Columbia M.F.A. faculty, our readers will charm, engage, and mystify all those in attendance with a sampling their best work.
The line-up this month:
Janet Mitchell has won the Hob Broun Prize for her fiction, and her stories have appeared in various literary journals and have been optioned to Hollywood. She is a recipient of the John Huston Award for Directing and a Paramount Pictures Fellowship for screenwriting. Her work as a writer-director includes the short film “How Does Anyone Get Old?” starring Mark Ruffalo and Mina Badie. She was born and raised in South Jersey, where her heart still resides.
Katherine Faw Morris is from North Carolina. Her work has appeared in BlackBook, Nylon, and the New York Observer. She is writing a novel, Rock Candy Mountain, about both candy and mountains.
Adam Boretz is not known for playing Jesse Katsopolis on “Full House” and he never portrayed Dr. Tony Gates on “ER.” Additionally, he did not play drums on the Beach Boys’ classic hit “Kokomo” and did not appear in the music video. He does live in Brooklyn, however. And his short fiction has appeared in Fawlt Magazine and Encyclopedia. He’s also writing a novel about mental illness and a memoir not about mental illness.
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What is Faculty Selects? The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success; this is your chance to glimpse who you’ll be reading in 2011!
Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.
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