Event Details

Instructors from Queens' MFA Program in Creative Writing will read from their works on Friday, May 25 at 8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Myla Goldberg is the bestselling author of Bee Season (2000), which was a Times Notable Book and a finalist for several prizes including the PEN/Hemingway prize, in addition to being adapted to film.  She is also the author of the novels Wickett's Remedy (2005) and The False Friend (2010), as well as the essay collection Time's Magpie (2004) and the children's book Catching the Moon (2007).  Her short stories have appeared in Harper's, her book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Bookforum,  and she is an occasional contributor to NPR.  She teaches in the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn College, and organizes independent fiction workshops for adults in and around New York City.

Emily Fox Gordon is the author of four books: two memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered, a novel, It Will Come to Me, and a collection of her personal essays, Book of Days. Her work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, and The Southwest Review, and has been anthologized in the Anchor Essay Annual. She has taught writing workshops at Rice University, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, The New School, the University of Wyoming and the MFA program at Rutgers/Camden. Most recently, she taught a Spring 2012 Master Class in the personal essay at Columbia University. Her work has received two Pushcart Prizes, and her memoir Mockingbird Years was a New York Times Notable Book.

For more information on the readings or on the Queens MFA Program in Creative Writing, contact Melissa Bashor, MFA Coordinator, at 704-337-2499 or by e-mail at bashorm@queens.edu.