MFA Lore

Bestselling author, ghostwriter, MFA prof. & defender of democracy. Novels: Glorious Boy, Flash House, Cloud Mountain, Face. Nonfiction includes Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders.

Poet & writer-- "When I Was a Twin" latest in poetry and "The End of Being Known" latest (and sort of old at this point) in autobiographical linked essays. "The Early Minutes of Without: New & Selected Poems" drops on 10/1/23!!

homosexual, venus in scorpio 3rd house, dogs.

Isla McKetta is the author of Polska, 1994 and co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College and served on the boards of Seattle City of Literature and Hugo House.

Author of the story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (Flannery O’Connor Award Winner), the novella Homegoing, the novel Remedy for a Broken Angel, and the forthcoming collection But Where’s Home?

Host of the Writer In The World, a section of Aimee Liu's MFA Lore

Midwesterner in L.A. Bks: The Virginity of Famous Men; Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry; Paris, He Said; Direct Sunlight; Please Be Advised. Best American Short Stories & O. Henry. MFA faculty Northwestern & Stanford Continuing Studies

Elena has published three books (two poetry, one fiction). She has won numerous literary awards and fellowships. She is currently an associate professor at UVM.

Katrina Barnes is a guest writer whose work explores underrepresented voices in fiction, screenplays, and poetry. An MFA graduate of Goddard College and alum of the University of Washington, she blends lyricism with social insight.

Poet Laurel Radzieski is the author of two books: Leaf Manifesto (Middle Creek Publishing & Audio, 2025) and Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018). She lives in Reading, PA and enjoys writing poems for strangers. She is writing a novel about the underworld.