Please join us to celebrate two new publications from MUW’s creative writing program!

MFA Director Kendall Dunkelberg and MFA Alumna Lauren Rhoades will present their brand new books during this special MFA residency reading open to the public on June 5 at 7 p.m. at Friendly City Books. MUW faculty, students, and alumni will receive 10% off their purchase during this event.

Kendall Dunkelberg, the author of Tree Fall with Birdsong: Poems, directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women, where he is also Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy and Professor of English. The author of the textbook A Writer’s Craft: Multi-genre Creative Writing, he also has three previous poetry collections.

Lauren Rhoades, the author of Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces, is director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission, a host of MPB’s The Mississippi Arts Hour, and founder of Rooted Magazine, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women.

Order signed and personalized copies of their books online at friendlycitybooks.com/shop.