Inside Look at Our 2018 Residency

This year's summer residency brought plenty of unfamiliar faces to our Ashland University campus, so while our students and faculty were able to grow familiar and bond over the course of those two weeks, anyone unable to come to campus this summer might still be yearning for a glimpse.

As such, please enjoy these gorgeous photos our campus photographer provided. Even for those that came, here's a dose of nostalgia and hopefully warm fuzzy feelings.

Captions detail faculty members versus students versus panelists.

Faculty member, Lauren Markham, with her workshop class.

Creative nonfiction students during their workshop.

Faculty members (from left to right) Lily Hoang, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Nayomi Munaweera, and Katherine Standefer

Featured panelists Eric Obenauf (founder of Two Dollar Radio) and NJ Campbell (author of Found Audio)

Stunning picture of our faculty.

(left to right, top): Kate Hopper, Kate Gale, Dexter Booth, Sandra Simonds, Brian Conn, Douglas Manuel, Lauren Markham, Sarah Monette, Christian Kiefer

(left to right, bottom): Lily Hoang, Naomi Williams, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Katherine Standefer, Kirstin Chen, Nayomi Munaweera

Program director Christian Kiefer (left), Lauren Markham (middle), and Dexter Booth (right) having a great time, most likely laughing at a horrible joke our fearless leader made.

First and second year poetry students working in their workshop.

Faculty member Derek Palacio sharing his wisdom during his workshop session.

Once again, we'd like to extend a huge thank you to all of our amazing faculty members and students who made this residency one to never forget.

Interview with Kyle Winkler

After talking to Lisa Nik, it only seemed right to keep the good juju going and interview one of our newest fiction faculty members, Kyle Winkler. You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about Kyle from this interview and from his website . Thanks to our lovely and talented intern, Angela Manasieva for preparing this interview. 1. Where are you from and how do you use your surroundings to write? I'm from southwest Indiana originally. Rolling hills, farmland, corn, wheat. LOTS of corn and wheat. My landscapes have affected me heavily in my writing. All that tall crop and the sometimes isolating farmland in the autumn during sunset can do a lot to make one feel...creeped out? Hah. I've tried to use my small town upbringing to good effect, as well. I grew up most of life in a working class to middle-class home in the rust belt. So I'm often trying to evoke the experiences and attitudes of the sorts of folks I grew up around and with. And those experiences were, to so

Meet the Team

We're very pleased to introduce our spring 2018 Ashland MFA Faculty. We hope you're as excited about these names as we are. Included are a few links to help you get acquainted with these writers and their work: interviews, book reviews, short publications, excerpts. For a full listing of faculty including their bios and additional information, visit our website's Faculty Page . Poetry Dexter Booth Author of Scratching the Ghost , winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Booth’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Blackbird, VQR, and elsewhere. Grist Journal review of Scratching the Ghost “Love in the Time of Revolution” ( Blackbird ) “Queen Elizabeth” ( VQR ) “Insomnia Poem” ( Waxwing ) Gaylord Brewer Author of nine collections of poetry including Country of Ghost and Give Over, Graymalkin. Brewer has published over nine hundred poems in journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to L

2020 Virtual Summer Residency

Get excited! The Ashland University 2020 MFA Summer Residency is going virtual this year. From July 13 - 31st , we’re hosting workshops, readings, panels, craft classes, open mics, and more--all from the safety and comfort of your home. Stay tuned for schedule updates and registration links! Students and faculty share a laugh at last year's residency Visiting Writers Jericho Brown , Visiting Writer in Poetry Poetry Reading: Tuesday, July 21, 7:30pm EST Craft Class: Wednesday, July 22, 5pm EST Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He i

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