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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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Johnston teaches fiction writing at Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. [1] Johnston is the author of the novels We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi: Stories. [2] In 2012, Waiting for Lightning premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films. [3]
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.
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]
Writing in both English and Chinese, he is the author of Burying the Mountain, a debut poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in 2021. He has earned a Stegner Fellowship and attended the Michener Center for Writers. His name, Shangyang, refers to a mythological one-legged bird whose dance brought rain and flood. [1]
She is also the author of a book of scholarly criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America (University of Michigan Press, 2009), which was the first scholarly monograph on the poetry slam and which focuses on African American performance in slam and spoken word poetry.