Excerpts and samples of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry from the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program, Class of 2011.
INTRODUCTION
Anthology, from the Greek: anthos (flower) and legein (to gather together); a bouquet.
Indulging the metaphor: the Thesis Anthology 2011 is a fantastically mixed bouquet of wildflowers, hothouse flowers, lush greens, stark branches, roses with thorns, roses without thorns, and thorns without roses. The individuation and variety of writing styles, voices, forms, ideas, and visions together create one book; a fantastically mixed sampling of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. To further indluge the metaphor: a far-reaching range of writers working together creates one community. The writers represented on these pages have inspired, supported, taught, and learned from each other with generosity of mind and spirit. Together they celebrate. Together, but each distinct, they are celebrated in a book worthy of their efforts: The Columbia University MFA Thesis Anthology 2011.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CYAN
17. Xuan Wang
21. Katherine Laskowski
27. John James
34. Elizabeth Redden
38. Swan Huntley
42. Iris Cushing
48. Liliana Castilla
52. Casey Plett
56. Elizabeth Tingue
60. Sara Davis
64. Sasha Fletcher
72. Michael Famighetti
76. Tanya Paperny
79. Ariell Cacciola
83. Julie Kantor
91. Zeynep Kayhan
95. Jessica Pishko
99. Emily Herzlin
103. Piya Chandrasegaram
107. Samantha Childs
111. E.C. Belli
118. Jessy Abraham
122. Alexander Wilds Cunningham
126. Carmen Adamucci
130. Montana Ray
136. Kassi Underwood
141. Kelsey Motes-Conners
MAGENTA
145. Emily Thibodeaux
149. Diana Khoi Nguyen
154. Andrew Eisenman
158. Tsering Lama
162. Sharif El Gammal Oritz
167. Nicole Jones
171. Abigail Rasminsky
179. Amaya Rivera
183. Justin Way
186. Sophia Efthimiatou
190. Jennifer Miller
194. James McGirk
197. Erin Ehsani
201. Ashley Nelson
205. Ji Eun Kim
209. Sarah Johnson
214. Ilana Manaster
218. Catalina Chao
221. Elysha Chang
225. Michael Makowski
229. Suzanne Mozes
233. Wistar Murray
237. Eva Saavedra
242. Indus Chadha
246. Adam Z. Levy
249. Philip Eil
252. Izabela Wojciechowska
256. Lizzie Reinhard
260. JC Longbottom
YELLOW
265. A. Cameron McVey
269. Patricia Berry
271. Lauren Birden
276. Rachel Ephraim
280. Jessamine Chan
284. Elizabeth Clark Wessel
288. Johanna Smith
292. Seth Satterlee
295. Nicole Vincent-Roller
298. Diane Cook
302. Raymond Dedemo
306. Jay Deshpande
311. Keegan Lester
318. Noah Johnson
321. Geoffrey Waring
325. Katherine Sanders
329. Angela Huynh
333. Julia Guez
338. Leah Damski
338. Alison Sweet
347. Monica Lewis
351. Rick Mick
355. Amal Masri
359. Stephen Moles
363. Muna Gurung
367. David Wu
371. Marina Blitshteyn
ORANGE
377. Krystall Fierens-Lee
380. Marni Berger
384. Brooke Sossin
388. Kate Jenkins
396. Brian Spitulnik
400. Sarah Ulicny
404. Michael Lee
408. Frances Cha
412 Sara Faye Lieber
416. Alessandro Ricciarelli
420. David Varno
424. Hilary Leichter
428. Michael Murphy
431. Aaron Allen
434 Adva Levin
438. Giovanni Muniz
442. Erik Leavitt
445. Jeffrey Weaver
448. Kirkwood Adams
454. Brooke Smith
458. Lorien Crow
462. Rachel Trager
466. Gillian Bagley
470. Mary South
474. S. Tremaine Nelson
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For their generous support, the Writing Program gratefully acknowledges the following individual and institutional donors:
Anonymous (3)
The Estate of Felipe de Alba
Laurel Blossom and Leonard Todd
Susan Corrente
Susan Hertog
Rebecca Hsu
Professor Judith E. Jones
The Estate of Stanley Kunitz
Starling Lawrence
Nancy Lemann and Mark Paul Clein
Musa Jan Mayer
The Estate of Joseph F. McCrindle
Scott Bechtel Smith
TOMS Scholarship Fund
Dr. Siri Sylvia von Reis
Dr. Lucy Waletzky
W. W. Norton
The Linda Corrente Poetry Fellowship Fund
The Philip guston Endowed Writing Fellowship Fund
The Lini Mazumdar Fellowship Fund
The Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowhsip Fund
Many thanks also to Dean Carol Becker and Dean Jana Wright for their enthusiasm and assistance in realizing our Thesis Anthology 2011.
