Ashland University MFA Program

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public.   7 p.m. MFA Faculty Reading: Bob Cowser, Ruth L. Schwartz, and Jill Christman   About Today's Presenters: Jill Christman  Jill Christman  Jill Christman ’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure , won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies . Her work has appeared on Indiana Public Radio and in anthologies, including Writer’s Digest’s Rules of Thumb, Unbuttoned: Women tell the truth about the pains, pleasures and politics of breastfeeding, and Literature: the Human Ex

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 1-2:30 p.m. Poetry Faculty Craft Seminar: "'What Else Is True?' Encompassing Complexity" with Ruth L. Schwartz 7-8 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading: Rhina Espaillat About Today's Presenters: Rhina P. Espaillat Rhina P. Espaillat Rhina P. Espaillat, visiting writer in poetry, was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932, has lived in the United States since 1939, and was educated in the public school system of New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and did graduate work at Queens College, also a branch of the City University of New York. Espaillat taught high school English in New York City for several years, and writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her poems, essays, narratives and translations have appeared in numerous magazines, on many websi