Creative Writing Reading Series: Creative Writing Reading Series 2023-2024

Sutherland, Amy. "Alysia Abbott Prefers Her Books Read Aloud." Boston Globe (Online), Jan 18 2024, ProQuest. Web. 28 Jan. 2024 .

Abbott, Alysia. "Mother's Day, from a distance." Washington Post, 8 May 2020.

Abbott, Alysia. "All Special-Needs Parents Know." Salon, 15 May 2015.

Abbott, Alysia. "I'm Longing to be the Mother I Never Had." WBUR Cognoscenti, 6 May 2022.

Schutt, Will. "Large Dark Lit Portrait" The Cortland Review. Issue 91. (poem)

Schutt, Will. "Houses With Names" The Sewanee Review. Winter 2022. (essay)

Katherine Agard author of colour (Essay Press), an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. It is a memoir of Agard's coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-Blackness. It is a manifesto for an experience of color that embraces change: the prismatic, the perverse, and that which is wholly beyond categorization. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard College and an MFA in Writing from UC San Diego. KAA has received fellowships from Kimbilio, Lambda Literary, VONA/Voices, and Callaloo. She lives in San Francisco and is a dual citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana. 

Agard’s work will be exhibited as part of the Craft in the Real World exhibition in the Brant Gallery.

Agard, Katherine Agyemaa. “A Reading Lesson or, Painting (in Five Flashes).” Feminist Studies, vol. 45, no. 2/3, May 2019, pp. 501–11.

Walkiewicz, Kathryn. "Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour." The Rumpus, 24 November 2021.

Golovchenko, Margaryta. "Of Colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard." (Review) Femme Art Review, 28 June 2021.

Mary-Kim Arnold is a writer, artist, and educator. She is the author of The Fish & The Dove: Poems (Noemi Press) and Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press). A transnational, transracial Korean-born adoptee, her text and textile work explore themes of hybridity, dislocation, racial and cultural identity, and gender. She serves as Senior Editor for Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts at Tupelo Quarterly. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA) and of Brown University (BA, MFA) and former faculty in Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program, Mary-Kim currently serves as Interim Academic Dean at Vermont College of Fine Arts.