WELCOME TO CAFÉ MFA

Café MFA is a collection of blog posts from graduate students at American University's Creative Writing MFA program. These posts range in content including Second-Year Spotlights, coverage of local writing events, book reviews, writing tips, student work, and more! Café MFA is the lovable literary blog companion to FOLIO Literary Journal, which is also run by the graduate creative writing community here at American. We are happy to have you here!

- Hannah Cornell, EIC 2024-2026

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INTERVIEW WITH TARA CAMPBELL

Café MFA’s associate editor, Ashley Werner, interviews AU MFA alum, Tara Campbell, about her new book, City of Dancing Gargoyles, her time in the MFA program here at American University, and other things writing.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT WITH CHLOE ONORATO

Chloe Onorato is a second-year student who primarily writes fiction. We interviewed her to learn more about her thesis project.

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