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Fulbright Information Session
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
The Fulbright information panel is composed of past Creative Writing Fulbright Fellows who tell of the application process; the experience; and the professional, creative, and personal benefits of this prestigious award. The Fulbright Program funds undergraduates, graduates, and at-large writers to study, conduct research, or pursue creative activities abroad for a year. Our panelists went to Mexico, Barbados, Bulgaria, India, and Paraguay to write poetry, memoirs, nonfiction, and novels.
Participants
Katherine Arnoldi (Fulbright, Paraguay 2008–09), created the graphic novel The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Graymalkin 2016), All Things Are Labor: Stories (2007, University of Massachusetts Press). Her awards include two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards, DeJur, Henfield, Juniper, and Newhouse.
Rashaun J. Allen is a tenure-track professor at Westchester Community College and the first Fulbright scholar in SUNY Stony Brook’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program history. He is a Vermont Studio Center residency recipient whose three poetry collections became Amazon Kindle Best Sellers.
Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer, and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver and was a 2016–2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). She has two books and two films.
Eireene Nealand's stories, poems, and translations have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Drunken Boat, Chicago Quarterly, and the St. Petersburg Review. She has won multiple awards including an Elizabeth Kostova Fellowship and two Fulbright Fellowships to write and teach in Bulgaria.
Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. Formerly, he was a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar in Mexico City, where he finished his first novel, BANG. He's a regular contributor to the Ploughshares Blog.
