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Something changed when, toward the end of elementary school, I discovered a whole new genre of story: fan fiction. It was 1998 or so, and I had fallen hard for Hanson, a band of boys just slightly ...

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Fiction writers in the MFA program work with nationally and internationally known authors including Lidia Yuknavitch, Alan Heathcock, Peter Mountford and Brendan Basham. Our emphasis is on helping you ...