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From MFA to JOB: Making a Living, Making a Difference, Sponsored by WITS Alliance
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Tenure-track teaching, publishing, and authorship are often the dream of MFA candidates, yet the competition for jobs and literary achievements has intensified. Creative and nonprofit sectors hold employment possibilities that utilize the craft of writing while making a real difference for communities. This panel ignites the imagination around the journey to meaningful careers that allow MFAs to work within a community of writers and artists, earn income, and sustain a writing life.
Participants
Asari Beale is a writer, educator, and leader deeply committed to children’s literacy. She is the executive director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a board member of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, and a steering committee member of LitNet, a network serving America’s literary community.
Javan Howard is a poet and writer from Bronx, New York. He truly believes that lived experience is the ultimate teaching tool and uses poetry as a social forum to foster discourse about love, culture, and identity. He is the TAP codirector for Curriculum Mentorship & Facilitation.
Peter Markus has taught with InsideOut Literary Arts for twenty-seven years. In that time he has published seven books, among them a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat; a book of stories, We Make Mud; a book of nonfiction, Inside My Pencil; and most recently a book of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds.
Leah Falk
