Columbus State University's Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians has an official website at

http://www.mccullerscenter.org

where you'll find the mission statement, fellowship application materials, detailed information about McCullers' life and work, and information about how you can donate to the McCullers Center. This blog, though, is intended to give you a more casual report of day-to-day goings-on at CSU's Carson McCullers Center.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Welcome, Jessica Garratt!

The Carson McCullers Center extends the warmest of welcomes to Jessica Garratt, our 2010 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Writing Fellow. Having arrived yesterday, Jessica will spend the next three months in residence at the McCullers House.  Jessica's first book, Fire Pond, won the 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, selected by poet Medbh McGuckian, and was published by the University of Utah Press in April 2009. Currently Jessica is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri where she holds a creative writing fellowship. She also received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin, where she earned her MFA.
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