A virtual reading with MFA alumni Jameson Fitzpatrick, Raven Leilani, Maura Roosevelt, and Sarah M. Sala.
MFA Alumni Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick, Raven Leilani, Maura Roosevelt, and Sarah M. Sala
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Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020), and the chapbooks Mr. & (Indolent Books, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014). A recipient of fellowships from the Pocantico Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts, Fitzpatrick now teaches in the Expository Writing Program at NYU.
Maura Roosevelt has taught critical and creative writing at NYU and the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from NYU and a BA from Harvard College, and is currently completing a PhD at Teachers College, where she studies how to enhance students’ equity and access to writing education. Her work has been published in places like The Nation and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Baby of the Family was developed from a short story with the same title, which was published in Joyland magazine and given an award for “Most Read Story of 2014.” Maura is also the great-granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Sarah M. Sala is the author of Devil's Lake (Tolsun Books 2020). The founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and co-poetry editor for The Bellevue Literary Review, she teaches expository writing at New York University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in BOMB, The Southampton Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. www.sarahsala.com
