Kristen Martin recently received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Her essays have been published in Literary Hub, The Hairpin, Guernica, The Toast, The Grief Diaries, Saveur, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. She teaches first-year writing at Columbia and Baruch College.
Kristen Martin
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Commuter Lit: How to Do an MFA on the MTA
When I moved to New York three years ago, to start graduate school at Columbia University, I took pains to rationalize my decision to live in Brooklyn—rather than, say, Morningside Heights or Washington Heights or Harlem or, really, anywhere in the relative vicinity of campus. I would be studying in the nonfiction MFA program and […]
