Introducing the readers for October 21, 2011, which will be held in the Multipurpose Room of the Campus Center at 7pm:
Kelly Addams is a fiction writer and a first-year MFA student. She wishes she had something witty to say, but bios make her nervous. So she will just say that she will be reading two very short stories and she hopes they will not disappoint.
Sarah Chaves is a 22 year-old first year MFA creative writing: nonfiction student. For the past four years she’s been working on a memoir titled Don’ Be Scare’ about her father. Her best friend is her fourteen-year-old brother Lucas. Besides obsessing over the next episode of Glee, they enjoy singing Lady Gaga songs and making pasta.
Nicole DiCello lives in central Massachusetts. An Ithaca College graduate, Nicole cut her teeth in The Workshop for Publishing Poets led by Barbara Helfgott Hyett in Brookline, MA. Nicole’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Guard, Poetry East, Nimrod, Soviet Peaches, Concho River Review, and Ballard Street Journal. Earlier this year she won 2nd place in the Blue Mesa Review poetry contest judged by Lisa Gill, Danny Solis, and Richard Vargas. She was also one of 12 poets chosen by Marge Piercy for a weeklong poetry workshop on Cape Cod in 2012. She’s a reader for Ploughshares.
LuzJennifer is a second year MFA fiction student at Emerson. Before coming to grad school, she worked as a reporter for the Hispanic press and as a freelance writer in Providence, RI.
Grace Schauer is a third-year poet fresh from two years’ temporary retirement in South Florida, a stint for which she has nothing to show but an incredibly unflattering driver’s license photo.
Laura Tetreault is a second-year nonfiction MFA student at Emerson. In her writing, she is interested in combining the academic and the creative, the investigative and the lyric, the serious and the just plan weird. She teaches in the First-Year Writing Program at Emerson, tutors in the WARC, and also works as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Asian and African Studies. In her almost-nonexistent free time, she likes to read a lot of books, drink a lot of coffee, and put together outfits involving as many bright colors as possible without looking completely like a five-year-old. At this GRS, she will be reading some combination of nonfiction and poetry.