Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will join the faculty as a Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University - Cascades this summer. Brooks will join faculty and students during the residency session that takes place from June 9 to June 19, 2014.
Students of the MFA in Creative Writing are located in Oregon and beyond. They embark on long distance and individualized courses of study with faculty author mentors, and join fellow students for two 10-day residences each year at Caldera Arts Center outside of Sisters, Ore. Distinguished writers are invited to join the residencies and guide and nurture apprentice writers.
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist. She spent 11 years as a correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where her beats focused on some of the world's most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.
Her fiction debut, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was published in 10 countries and was a 2001 Notable Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. For her second novel, March, Brooks was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her third book, People of the Book, became an instant New York Times bestseller. Her most recent novel is Caleb's Crossing.
Brooks was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University in fall 2005 and was the recipient of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. While in Central Oregon, Brooks will also participate in the Deschutes Public Library Foundation's Author! Author! literary series, speaking at Bend High School on June 19.
The Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at OSU-Cascades incorporates instruction in the craft, community and profession of creative writing. To learn more visit http://www.osucascades.edu/academics/mfa.
Posted March 10, 2014.