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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 ...
Pages in category "Michener Center for Writers alumni" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
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]
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.
James Albert Michener (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər / or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
Philipp Meyer (born May 3, 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and other places. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel . [ 2 ]
Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction.In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction [2] for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and in 2020 their second novel, The Deep, won the Lambda Literary Award. [3]