MFA Faculty Reading

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Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee is the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Blackboard, After the Gold Rush, Fliegelman’s Desire, and First to Leave Before the Sun (with Dave Tilton), as well as three award-winning books for younger readers, Steinbeck’s Ghost, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, and Bridge of Time. His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in Lit Hub, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A former bookseller and publisher, he has taught in the MFA in Writing Program at USF for 25 years. Diver is his newest book.

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Kate Folk

Kate Folk is the author of a novel, Sky Daddy, and a story collection, Out There, which was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, n+1, and The Baffler, among other venues. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.