Two M.F.A. Alumni, Now Faculty Members, Read from Their Works, Nov. 17
November 16, 2016
Contact: Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
On Thursday, Nov. 17, the University of Baltimore’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts will present readings from two faculty members who also are alumni of the M.F.A.: Steven Leyva, M.F.A. '12, author of Low Parish and editor of Little Patuxent Review, and D. Watkins, M.F.A. '14, author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up. The readings will begin at 7 p.m. in the UB Student Center's Bogomolny Room, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Leyva was born in New Orleans and raised in Houston. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Fledgling Rag, The Light Ekphrastic, The Cobalt Review and Prairie Schooner. He is a Cave Canem fellow, the winner of the 2012 Cobalt Review Poetry Prize and author of the chapbook, Low Parish.
Raised in Baltimore, Watkins is an editor-at-large for Salon and founded the BMORE Writers Project. He is the author of the New York Times best sellers The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir.
Both Leyva and Watkins received their M.F.A.s in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and are now part of the Klein Family School of Communications Design faculty.
For more information about the M.F.A. Reading Series, contact Jaye Crooks at jcrooks@ubalt.edu.