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Considering an MFA? Join us for a discussion about MFA programs, hosted by Creative Writing faculty member Karen Rile, and featuring a panel of Penn alumni who've attended MFA programs: Julia Bloch, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, John Carroll, and Sanae Lemoine.

JULIA BLOCH grew up in northern California and Sydney, Australia, and holds an MFA from Mills College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (2012), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and Allison Corporation, forthcoming in spring 2015. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Aufgabe, How2, The Volta, Journal of Modern Literature, and elsewhere. She is also a co-editor of the poetics journal Jacket2 and has taught literature and creative writing at Bard College and the University of Pennsylvania. She is associate director of the Kelly Writers House.

JOHN CARROLL'S fiction has appeared in The Citron Review, Big Lucks,Cleaver, Stymie, The Battered Suitcase, Interrobang!?, Versal and Philly Fiction 2 (Don Ron Books). He is one-half of the comedy duo Carroll ünd Klinger. John received his MFA from American University. He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Rachael.

JAMIE-LEE JOSSELYN is the Associate Director for Recruitment at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and is a College House Fellow at Hill House on Penn's campus. She has previously worked at the Kelly Writers House as the Assistant to the Faculty Director and Coordinator of the Writers House Fellows Program. Jamie-Lee has taught creative nonfiction writing at St. Paul’s School’s Advanced Studies Program in Concord, New Hampshire, at the New England Young Writers Conference, and in the Philadelphia public school system and has led book groups for Penn alumni and for prospective students in the Writers House Online Book Groups Program. Her writing has been published in The Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, LOST Magazine, in the six-word memoir anthology It All Changed in an Instant, and elsewhere. Jamie-Lee has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Bennington College where she was the nonfiction editor of The Bennington Review.

SANAË LEMOINE was raised in France and Australia. She received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and studied fiction in the MFA at Columbia, where she teaches an undergraduate essay writing course. She also works as a writing consultant in Columbia’s Writing Center. You will often find Sanaë in her kitchen at work on her novel, cooking, and writing about food at www.petitriz.com.