REVISE THIS! DEC 2022
Nisha Sharma
Program alum and faculty mentor Nisha Sharma recently made a big professional leap: she quit her established career as a chief diversity officer for a global tech company to be a full-time novelist.
This “leap” wasn’t spur of the moment or on a whim by any means; Sharma had planned for this switch for years, perhaps dating all the way back to when, at nineteen, she first decided she wanted to be a working writer.
REVISE THIS! DEC 2022
Q&A: Dr. J. Michael Lennon
January 31 marks Norman Mailer’s 100th birthday and the much-anticipated release of J. Michael Lennon’s newest project, A Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy, a 68-piece collection of Mailer’s work Lennon compiled alongside Mailer’s son, John Buffalo Mailer. A Mysterious Country is the product of a deep-dive into the Mailer archives, from which Lennon and Mailer unearthed sidelined material in the form of profiles, interviews, essays, and articles.
REVISE THIS! OCT 2022
Ru Freeman
Ru Freeman, a recently new faculty member to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, has adapted her knack for storytelling to an impressive variety of forms. Her latest work, a collection of short stories called Sleeping Alone, was published in June of this year and showcases a newer set of writing chops. Though she mainly considers herself a novelist, she also writes poetry, nonfiction, and now these short stories – a collection that’s been decades in the making.
REVISE THIS! MAY 2022
International Arts Festival Produced by Kate Ekanem-Hannum
Being a grad student is rigorous in itself. But imagine simultaneously running a nonprofit organization and planning an international art and book festival. Kate Ekanem-Hannum has done all three in her first semester in the Maslow Family Creative Writing Program.
REVISE THIS! MAR 2022
Morowa Yejidé
As a young girl living in 1970s Anacostia, Yejidé saw Washington, D.C. and its suburbs from the inside out. This was a place known on a national and political scale, but it was also a place where she went to school, ate meals, and carried out her daily life. Many of the stories that informed her perspective on its history came from the mouths of the older generations of women in her family: her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother, who was one of the first three Black female cab drivers in the emerging metropolis when her family first moved there.
Hallie O'Neill 