SewaneeLetters.com

Current home: East Point, GA
Age: 30
Program: MFA
Year in the program: Just finished my 2nd summer
Blog/website: strongsilent.com

Fill us in on your background. Schools attended, work situation, etc.
Graduated from Agnes Scott with a BA in English Lit/Creative Writing, spent a few years working in publishing in NYC, started experimenting with interactive media and printmaking, married, moved back to ATL, landed a job with an ad agency, established my garage printshop

What led you to the School of Letters program?
I’ve been kind of dreaming about an MFA since the last days of undergrad. An ad for the School of Letters in the Oxford American made me curious. My mom lives in Sewanee, so it was like puzzle pieces coming together.

What writing/academic projects are you working on currently?
I’m really getting into the history and landscape of the southside of Atlanta. I’m trying to archive vanishing bits of southernness around here. Also, I print all kinds of stuff in my garage and then write about artmaking.

Favorite class so far at Sewanee:
Creative Non-fiction with John Jeremiah Sullivan

What would be your fantasy class or workshop at Sewanee, and who would teach?
Screenwriting with Miranda July

What advice would you give to any prospective students?
Catch up on sleep when the program is over. And then look for ways to integrate the utopian Sewanee experience into your “other” life.

What are you reading these days?
Design blogs mostly. Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. (because Prep was so juicy.)