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MFA Students
b-cartwright@sbcglobal.net
Ben's website.
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Benjamin Cartwright
B.A. in Humanities, Washington State University, M.A. English, Kansas State University. I’m a native of Washington State but have been bouncing around between the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest for a number of years. Lawrence is the bees’ knees because of the low cost of living and vibrant arts community. I chose KU for my MFA because I feel that living in a small, lively University town is the perfect environment for writing. I’ve had poetry published in Organization and Environment, The Sunflower Anthology, The Palouse Poetry Project, Touchstone, LandEscapes, The
Spokesman-Review and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Several years ago I composed and sold poems to strangers at Farmer’s Markets in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. I’ve also worked on several poetry pieces involving projections of found-object slides, musical accompaniment, and occasionally, a megaphone.
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1224 Rhode Island Street, Apt. 1
Lawrence, KS 66044
913-884-2047
jamesf07@ku.edu
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James Farnen
I spent my formative years back and forth between Kansas City,
Harrisonville, MO, Memphis, TN, and Eskridge, KS. A little bit country, a
little bit rock and roll. A product of the ever-popular broken home, I am
working now to maintain a home of my own (in my mother-in-law's basement),
with a lovely wife who is working on her business degree here at KU, a
fifteen month old son, and a fetus in waiting. An apprentice writer of
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and the screenplay, I love and practice writing
in all its forms, though I am most prolific at the form known as
"first-page-and-a-half." As one recently back from the dead (just ask Lydia
Ash), I am excited to begin writing in earnest once more. I have proudly
been published in and worked as a staff member on various high school and
college level literary magazines, though the New Yorker and the Georgia
Review are still holding out.
I love Lawrence because it is a beautifully preserved town with an air of
authenticity to it that is rare anymore, and one populated by such a rich
amalgam of people that even one as socially awkward as myself is made to
feel at ease. KU's English department is perfection, offering much in the
way of option and opportunity (moreso than most universities) and because so
many of it's professors are of such high caliber that to name individuals
would take up more space than I've been allowed here (and possibly affect my
GPA if certain names were to be accidentally excluded).
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1142 Oak Street
Williamstown, KS 66073
785-597-5105
chlojo5@yahoo.com
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Chloé" Jones
BFA from the Writing, Literature, and Publishing department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Published in Slide Down Fiction, Gangsters in Concrete, Velle Magazine, and Wylion Magazine. I moved back to Lawrence last year and bought an old church with my boyfriend, Charley. We’ve been slowly fixing it up and making it more “homey” and less “Jesusy”.
I grew up in Lawrence. I chose to move back and get my MFA from KU because I wanted to be in a town that allowed me more time and space to write and think. The low cost of living and close proximity to great art, food, and music made moving to Lawrence an easy choice. Big cities make you poor! Being poor makes you work too hard and writing becomes secondary to scraping together enough money for rent and ramen noodles. I wanted to put myself in a position to truly focus on being a better writer and teacher, and the MFA program at KU offers you every opportunity to do so.
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3084 Wescoe Hall
864-2509
cmcit@ku.edu
Technical Writing website
Chris' website
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Chris McKitterick
MA (KU), undergrad work in English, astronomy, and psychology. A longtime technical writer, developmental editor, and documentation manager, Chris also has numerous fiction, poetry, essay, nonfiction, and other miscellaneous publications, primarily in the science-fiction magazines and scholarly journals. He has taught astronomy and fiction writing, has directed observatory and planetarium programs, has built nearly a hundred telescopes, and has become an expert on restoring automobiles.
Chris chairs the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science-fiction), serves as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel), is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and acts as KU's Technical Communication Liaison.
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401-525-1456
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Elliott Stevens
I grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii and went to school in Bennington, Vermont. Last year, I lived in Detroit and supported myself by selling beer and hotdogs at professional baseball and football games. I haven't published anything yet, but I do work for America's greatest living essayist, Edward Hoagland. A selection of his journal entries that I helped to edit appeared in the Autumn 2004 issue of The American Scholar. I also transcribed a short story of his called "The Devil's Tub," which appeared in the October 2005 issue of The Yale Review. |
smith.cote@gmail.com
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Cote Smith
I graduated from KU in 2005 and promptly moved to Seattle
to work/write for a quarterly magazine called the Internationalist
(www.intmag.org). They published a poem of mine, so naturally I fell
in love with the entire staff and the magazine itself, which focuses
on international cultures, affairs, and politics—in a cool way. They
also taught me to write, which was very kind of them. I'm still
involved with the Internationalist, writing the occasional web piece
and print article, but I came back to KU because of my unrelenting
affinity for both the English Department and allergenic hills.
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