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, 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 2024-2025
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.
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.
MFA Students Share Their Advice: Ways to Spice Up Your Prose
We asked MFA students if they had any tips or tricks for bringing life back into their prose.