WMU Creative Writing

our great and wonderful graduate director, Meghann Meeusen, made this beautiful program for our MFA/PhD festival this evening at 7 pm, via zoom--please join us to celebrate our spectacular graduate students! zoom link here (or see event listing): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85417995943?pwd=L1p6SXMzODkySEU1MG9IU2laSnVuUT09

This week we will be celebrating the graduation of our 2020 class of MFA and PhD students! Today, please join me in celebrating and congratulating Amber Palmer (MFA Playwriting)!

Amber Palmer’s work has been seen at Activate Midwest: New Play Festival, Flint Repertory Theatre New Works Festival, Pegasus PlayLab, Tipping Point Theatre, and elsewhere. A monologue from her play “It’s a Small World (or The Robot Play)” is published in Best Men’s Monologues of 2019. Awards include City Theatre's National Award for Short Playwriting (finalist, 2019), Tipping Point Theatre’s Sandbox Play Festival (2nd place, 2019) and Gary Garrison 10 Minute Play Award (Region 3 finalist, 2018). She was Artist-in-Resident at The Mitten Lab in 2019. Amber will begin her PhD in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at The University of Wisconsin Madison in Fall 2020.

Amber would like to thank Steve Feffer, Scott Irelan, Meghann Meussen, and the WMU English Faculty for everything they’ve done to make the past three years as wonderful as they have been.

You can read Amber’s work at https://newplayexchange.org/users/3492/amber-palmer

This week we will be celebrating the graduation of our 2020 class of MFA and PhD students! Today, please join me in celebrating and congratulating Abigail Goodhart (MFA Poetry)!

Abigail Goodhart has received her MFA at Western Michigan University. She has published poems in previous or forthcoming issues of Atlanta Review, Dunes Review, and Sugar House Review. She draws inspiration from the culture of the Midwest, the absurdism of the web, and the frenzy of playing roller derby. Next year, she will be living in Ann Arbor, (not a far drive from Kalamazoo!).

Read her poem “Preservation” here! https://www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnorthcom/2019/10/4/preservation-by-abigail-goodhart

This week we will be celebrating the graduation of our 2020 class of MFA and PhD students! Today, please join me in celebrating and congratulating Mehgan Frostic (MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction)!

Mehgan Frostic is a writer and photographer from the suburbs of Detroit. In 2016 she graduated from Wayne State University with a B.A. in English. From there she worked as a writer and photographer for The D Profile before starting the MFA program at Western. In the future she hopes to obtain a creatively fulfilling job while continuing to pursue her passions. She'd like to thank Thisbe Nissen and Steve Feffer for all their creative guidance, Scott Slawinski for being a part of her committee, her friends and family, and everyone she's worked with at Western.

You can see Mehgan’s list of printed publications and her photography at mehganfrostic.com.