Margaret Dawe - Director, Creative Writing Program.m4v

Margaret Dawe, director of creative writing at Wichita State University, was interviewed about the advantages to writers of enrolling in an MFA program. In this interview, Dawe describes the writing program at Wichita State, and discusses how her writing and teaching influence each other.
Dawe is the author of the novel Nissequott, published by New Directions. The novel was a New York Times New & Noteworthy Paperback.
She is working on a novel, A Bigger Beat, which describes a reporter's investigation of a murder she saw long before, as a five-year-old on a walk with her grandfather.
She was a journalist at the East Hampton Star, where her stories won New York State and Long Island press awards, and she has been published in Newsday. Her essay "Nail Your Windows Closed" is in the Sonoroa Review.
She received her MFA from Brooklyn College, her MS at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and her BA from the University of Virginia. She has taught in Wichita State's MFA program since 1993.

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• Margaret Dawe
• Creative writing program
• Wichita State University
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• MFA program
• Director
• Poetry and fiction writing
• English
• Provost Gery L. Miller
• Academic Affairs and Research
• Nissequott
• WSU writing program
• Wichita State Writer
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