Michener Fellowship
March 5, 2010
I’m pleased to announce that I have been awarded a fellowship from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. I will begin working toward my MFA in Creative Writing with a playwriting focus this fall. More details concerning this fellowship are here.
Briefly put, Michener Fellows pay no tuition, are awarded a $25,000 stipend annually, have access to substantial career development funds, and are not required to teach to support themselves (although there are some teaching opportunities through the program).
The program is mentioned in the Atlantic’s article here. It is also ranked well (#4) on Poets & Writers 2010 MFA Rankings here.
I am very enthusiastic about the Fellowship and owe thanks any number of people who have helped educate and prepare me as a thinker and writer, including my parents, teachers, professors, and innumerable fellow artists and theatre practitioners in Minneapolis, New York, and London who’ve shared their time, experiences, and work with me. To be a full time and professional writer has been a goal of mine for many years, and no writer (least of all a playwright) works in a vacuum, so these thanks are surely in order.
