Spotlight on Dobie Paisano Fellow Diane Wilson
Activist, fisherwoman, mother….Diane Wilson has been called by many names, but the one she was always reluctant to give herself was author. In fact, her 93-year old mother once told her that if she...
View ArticleNext Paisano Fellow shares tall tales, not-so-tall tales and “Birdisms”
Sarah Bird’s favorite description of herself as an author came from a high school student who was forced to attend a literary reading by her English teacher. She says, “Sarah Bird was tall and thin...
View ArticleNew Paisano Fellows Anticipate Time, Space and a Thoughtful Place to Write
Photo by Marsha Miller “My greatest worries, as a writer, are about time and space, whether I will have enough to complete the work that compels me. Six months on a 250-acre ranch: I couldn’t ask for...
View ArticleHigh Praise From Down Under: UT Alum Nominated for Top Australian Literary...
The accent is still there, made faint by long years away from Australia. Dominic Smith, a 2003 alumnus of the Michener Center’s MFA program in writing, was born in Brisbane and grew up in Sydney, but...
View ArticleA Poetic Q&A with Author, Activist and Alumnus William J. Cobb
William J. Cobb (MA English, ’84) is a novelist, essayist and short fiction writer whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, The Antioch Review, and many others. Before...
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