Alumni
MFA Alumna Rose Himber Howse awarded Stegner Fellowship
April 2, 2021
Fiction alumna and former Greensboro Review fiction editor Rose Himber Howse has been awarded a prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Many congratulations and best wishes from Greensboro, Rose! Read an interview from the GR archives with Rose here. …
Learn MoreAlum Ruth Dickey to lead the National Book Foundation
February 12, 2021
Ruth Dickey, alumna of our MFA Writing Program in poetry, has been named the new Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Congratulations from all of us at UNCG! “My whole career has been working at the intersection of two …
Learn MoreCamille Dungy, UNCG poetry alum, named University Distinguished Professor
May 8, 2020
Congratulations to UNC Greensboro alumna Camille T. Dungy for being named Colorado State University Distinguished Professor! “Camille Dungy, an award-winning poet, Guggenheim Fellow and faculty member in the Department of English, has been named a University Distinguished Professor. “Her record …
Learn MoreGreensboro alum Kelly Link featured on BBC Radio’s Fantastic Journeys
January 30, 2020
Listen to “The Faery Handbag” by UNC Greensboro alumna Kelly Link over on BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hlb0h?fbclid=IwAR0IeQGjuZHQ6-z9m4GrklrIhYFpFEE0SwJQwixgTmpGxaQ76qrTT_JielU
Learn MoreMFA professor and alumna receive NC Arts Council Fellowships
November 21, 2019
Two of this year’s NC Arts Council Fellowships were awarded to members of our UNCG creative writing community: Emilia Phillips, poetry faculty member, and MFA Writing Program alumna Jennie Malboeuf. Phillips plans to use the grant to fund experiential research …
Learn MoreSummer Reading: Books by UNCG Faculty and Alumni
June 21, 2019
It’s the first day of summer! This has been a great year so far for Greensboro faculty and alums, so be sure to check out the University Communications reading recommendations among books published in 2019: https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/summer-reading-books-faculty-alumni/
Learn MoreAudiobook column: parents in all their complicated forms
June 11, 2019
In his latest audiobook column for Literary Hub, James Tate Hill, Greensboro MFA alum, recommends five new (and very different) audiobooks about parents and parenthood: https://lithub.com/5-audiobooks-with-complicated-parent-child-relationships/
Learn MoreDoua Thao wins 100th Annual O. Henry Prize
May 22, 2019
Doua Thao, a graduate of the Greensboro MFA and former editor of The Greensboro Review, has received the 2019 O. Henry prize for short fiction in recognition of “Flowers for America” (published in Fiction). Congratulations to Doua for this great …
Learn MoreAlumna Jamey Bradbury on her new novel and UNCG experience
April 25, 2018
Author Jamey Bradbury, whose debut novel The Wild Inside was released last month by William Morrow, talks about her experience in Greensboro: “UNCG was absolutely essential to my development as a writer.” http://www.greensboro.com/go_triad/arts/books/new-author-uncg-was-absolutely-essential-to-my-development-as/article_a1679f39-ab8f-5276-9f83-bfe803b378a1.html
Learn MoreThe Bright Hour by Nina Riggs featured in New York Times
December 31, 2017
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, from MFA Writing Program alumna Nina Riggs, is highlighted as “one of the most helpful” non-self-help books of the year from the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/books/review/best-self-help.html
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