The poet Karyna McGlynn has been awarded the 2006 Moveen Residency by the University of Michigan Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.
The residency, aimed at encouraging the work of new writers, provides a stipend to cover travel and living expenses for a month long stay on the remote West Clare peninsula in Ireland in a cottage owned by Thomas Lynch, an adjunct professor with the M.F.A. program.
Keith Taylor, coordinator of the undergraduate program in Creative Writing at Uof M. selected Ms. McGlynn’s work from entrants in a blind competition. “The winning essay was able to capture several things in a very short space.
It is quite moving and genuinely funny. It is musical and stylish while also being wonderfully colloquial. I could imagine reading it in any number of fine magazines or journals,” said Mr. Taylor.
A native of Austin, Texas, Karyna McGlynn is a graduate of Seattle University.
Her poems have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cimarron Review, Verse and elsewhere.
She has worked with National Poetry Slam teams from Seattle and Austin and serves as associate editor of the online journal Stirring.
She holds the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry and the Michael R. Gutterman Prize at the University of Michigan where she is a first year student in the Masters of Fine Art Program. Ms. McGlynn will spend the month of May in Ireland where she will give readings in West Clare, Limerick and Dublin.
As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
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