Ashland University MFA Program

The Ashland University MFA program is very pleased to be able to report that we have three new poets joining our faculty team. Tess Taylor, Aria Aber, and Vanessa Angélica Villareal have agreed to join our  poetry  faculty. These are all wonderful  poets  and educators and we encourage you to get to know their work if you’re not already aware of it. Aria Aber Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book  Hard Damage  (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in  The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The New Republic,  and elsewhere. She was the 2018-2019 Ron Wallace Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Books by Aria Aber: Hard Damage  (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Tess Taylor Tess Taylor is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, and her criticism and non-fiction appear widely. Critic Stephanie Burt called  Work & Days , her second book “our moment’s