Antioch’s MFA Program in Creative Writing recently touched base with three alumni who have achieved recognition for their work in the first half of 2023 and asked them: what did this award or nomination mean to you as a writer and an Antioch MFA alum? The interviews appeared in the Magazine & Media section of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). The article featured:
Reyna Grande, author of numerous works, including the memoir The Distance Between Us, recipient of the 2023 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers:
Anna Dorn, author of the novel Exalted, fiction finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
Toni Ann Johnson, author of the interlinked story collection Light Skin Gone To Waste, finalist for Outstanding Literary Work/Fiction in the 2023 NAACP Image Awards:
