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The Michener Center for Writers is a Masters of Fine Arts program in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. It is widely regarded as one of the top creative writing programs in the world. Bret Anthony Johnston is the current director of the program. Previously, James Magnuson ran the program for ...
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From 1986 to 1993, he was a key member of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/American College Theatre Festival's Playwriting Awards Committee, which seeks to identify and reward talented young writers. The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, supported by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, the ...
Koogler studied playwrighting at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of the Juilliard School Playwrighting Fellowship. [2] [3] He received an Obie Award for his play Fulfillment Center that ran Off-Broadway in 2018. [4] In 2018, he received the Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award. [5]
McCracken holds the James Michener Chair of Fiction of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. [3] She and her husband were previously on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the sister of former PC World magazine editor-in-chief and founder of Technologizer.com Harry McCracken.
She formerly was professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. [1] She was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, she taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College . [ 2 ]
The house was bought by J. Frank Dobie in 1926, and it contained the library and office where he did much of his writing. [1] Until his death in 1964, Dobie used the house for informal entertaining with colleagues and students. It was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, and currently houses the Michener Center for Writers. [2]
Smith Henderson is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels Fourth of July Creek and (with Jon Marc Smith) Make Them Cry, as well as short stories published in Best American Short Stories, Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Story, and Witness.