If you’ve heard me talk about my experience in the MFA program at Pacific University, particularly my last two semesters, you’ve likely heard me talk about my advisor, Mary Helen Stefaniak. If you haven’t heard me gush about how much I learned during my two years at Pacific, haven’t heard me rave about how sharpContinue reading “Read This Book Now”
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An Excuse to Make Pie
This week a fellow Pacific alumnus* posted an article about balancing writing with other work. The article points to a lot of what I did in grad school in order to eke out the time for the required reading, annotations, commentaries and writing: reading on the train during my commutes, writing at my desk duringContinue reading “An Excuse to Make Pie”