2019-20 Visiting Writers

Announcing 2019-2020 Visiting Writers

 

The Texas State MFA in Creative Writing program is pleased to announce the initial list of visiting writers for the 2019-2020 academic year :

 

(in alphabetical order)

Jamel Brinkley

Jericho Brown

Melissa Febos

Valeria Luiselli

Carmen Maria Machado

Adrian Matejka

Morgan Parker

Tommy Pico

Luis Javier Rodriguez

Erika Sánchez

 

Among this esteemed group of writers are multiple Guggenheim fellows, National Endowment of the Arts fellows, National Book Award finalists, and Pulitzer Prize finalists. We sincerely look forward to welcoming them to our esteemed Visiting Writers Series next year.

Additional visiting writers will be added to the list prior to the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year. The MFA program will also continue to host a separate agents and editors series through its literary journal, Porter House Review.