Your fellow students and their work
The best way to know the truth about any writing program is to
interrogate the students, who can always be relied on to be recklessly
truthful. Ideally you do this face to face, at our Open House -
which is usually held in the first week of November – but
while you’re waiting, we offer a revealing interview
with our director which James McCloskey (Fiction MFA class of 2006)
published in Brooklyn Rail. You should also check out the links
below to work by our fiction
writers, poets and memoirists.
Of course, if you want the real dirt, you have no choice but to
come to the Open House.
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Gary Shteyngart, Hunter MFA Fiction 2002
Absurdistan
(Random House, 2006)
New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006
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Gary Shteyngart, Hunter MFA Fiction 2002
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
(Riverhead, 2003) |
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Gary Shteyngart, Hunter MFA Fiction 2002
Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2
(Granta 97: Grove Press, 2007)
Granta names Gary Shteyngart one of best young American novelists of the decade |
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Liz Moore, Hunter MFA Fiction 2009
The Words of Every Song
(Random House/Broadway, 2007) |
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Tennessee Jones, Hunter MFA Fiction 2009
Deliver Me From Nowhere
(Soft Skull Press, 2005) |
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Colin Channer, Hunter MFA Fiction 2009
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
(Akashic Books, 2007)
Washington Post 2007 Spring Pick |
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Geronimo Madrid, Hunter MFA Fiction 2006
"What I Did Showed Extremely Bad Judgement"
A short story published in
BOMB Magazine, Fall 2006
Click the picture to read this story
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David Rogers, Hunter MFA Fiction 2006
"The Tie Down"
A short story published in
The Antioch Review, Fall 2005
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Jeffrey Rotter, Hunter MFA Fiction 2006
The Unknown Knowns
Excerpt from his forthcoming novel
(Scribner, 2010)
Click the picture to read an excerpt
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Eva Talmadge, Hunter MFA Fiction, 2008
"Caroline"
Exceprt from a short story in progress
Click the picture to read an excerpt |
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Caledonia Kearns, Hunter MFA Poetry 2008
Editor of:
Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish-American Women's Fiction
(Henry Holt, 1997) |
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| Poetry |
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Amy Meckler, Hunter MFA Poetry 2001
What All the Sleeping Is For
(Defined Providence Press, 2002)
Defined Providence Poetry Book Award 2002 |
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Wendy Wisner, Hunter MFA Poetry 2002
Epicenter
(Wordtech Communications, 2004)
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Kate Light, Hunter MFA Poetry 2005
Open Slowly: Poems
(Zoo Poems, 2003)
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Kate Light, Hunter MFA Poetry 2005
The Laws of Falling Bodies
(Story Line Press, 1997)
Nicholas Roerich Prize, 1997 (co-winner) |
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Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
Document (chapbook)
(Octopus Books, 2007) |
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Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
Morming News (chapbook)
(Kitchen Press, 2007) |
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Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
"The Twenty-Four Hour Song," poem in:
The New York Quarterly, 63 |
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Alana Joblin, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
"Wheat" and "Psalm," poems in
Quarterly West, 65, Fall/Winter 2007-08 (pp.6-7)
Click the picture to read these poems |
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Caroline Conway, Hunter MFA Poetry 2006
Poem in
LIT, 13 Fall 2007 |
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Danica Colic, Hunter MFA Poetry 2006
"Syracuse Parallel," poem in
Pebble Lake Review, Fall/Winter 2007 |
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Ari Banias, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
"Desire," "Desire II," "How A Fire Gets Built," "The Impossible," "On Charm," and "Where My Hands Find Their Way," 18-page chapbook feature in
Mid-American Review, vol. 28, no. 1, Fall 2007 (pp.163-180)
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Ari Banias, Hunter MFA Poetry 2007
"A Father" and "The Carrier," poems in
Arts & Letters, no. 17, Spring 2007 (pp.120-121)
Click the picture to read "The Carrier" |
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| Memoir |
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Manijeh Nasrabadi, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
Jade Sanchez-Ventura, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
Kym Ragusa, Hunter MFA Memoir 2008 (et. al.)
About Face: 25 Woman Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror
(Avalon Publishing Group, 2008)
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Sandra Hurtes, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
"Weighing In," essay in:
The Contempoary Reader
(Pearson Longman, 2007) |
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Sandra Hurtes, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
"What's a Knitting Store Without a Yenta?" essay in:
KnitLit the Third: We Spin More Yarns
(Three Rivers Press, 2005)
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Kym Ragusa, Hunter MFA Memoir 2008
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
(W.W. Norton, 2006)
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Kym Ragusa, Hunter MFA Memoir 2008
Things That Come From the Sky
(An excerpt from Kym Ragusa's MFA thesis)
Click the jacket to read an excerpt |
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Kym Ragusa, Hunter MFA Memoir 2008
Essay in:
Are Italians White?: How Race Is Made in America
(Routledge, 2003)
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Kym Ragusa, Hunter MFA Memoir 2008
Essay in:
The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
(Feminist Press, 2003)
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Caledonia Kearns, Hunter MFA Poetry 2008
"Morena," essay in:
Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers
(Seal Press, 2001) pp.193-197 |
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Caledonia Kearns, Hunter MFA Poetry 2008
Editor of:
Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women About Mothers and Daughters
(Harper Collins, 2000)
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Anna Marrian, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
"Under the Influence," essay in:
Behind the Bedroom Door
(Bantam, 2009) |
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Anna Marrian, Hunter MFA Memior 2007
"Nanny Love," essay in:
Jane Magazine, August 2006 |
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Anna Marrian, Hunter MFA Memoir 2007
"Mortgage on My Mind," essay in:
Newsweek, February 7, 2005 |
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Hunter MFA students and alumni: Do you have a creative-writing print publication that isn't listed here? Please let us know, by emailing mfa@hunter.cuny.edu, so we can add it.
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