Fairbanks Arts Literary Reading with Third-Year UAF MFA Writers
Friday, April 18th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in the Bear Gallery
Fairbanks Arts is delighted to welcome third-year graduate students from the UAF MFA program who will share their works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in the April literary reading taking place in the Bear Gallery. This free event will start at 6:00 p.m.
Meet the Authors!
Rachel Blume is a mom and writer from the Texas Gulf Coast. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her works can be found in “Cirque,” “Skipjack Review,” “Flora Fiction,” “Glass Mountain,” “Continue the voice,” and elsewhere.
MFC Feeley is an MFA candidate at UAF. She has published in Best Micro-Fictions, SmokeLong, Ghost Parachute, Pulp Literature, Brevity Blog, and others.
Dr. Kathy Kitts is a retired planetary geologist who has served as a science team member on the NASA Discovery Mission Genesis, among others. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at UAF. Her latest speculative fiction has appeared in Compelling SF, James Gunn’s Ad Astra, and Amazing. She hates it when people say, “It ain’t rocket science,” because that’s what she’s good at.
Nóra McIntyre came to UAF to study fiction and ended up falling in love with many genres and forms. Anyone who has ever spoken to her for more than five minutes knows that she is obsessed with horror. When she is not watching horror movies or writing weird stuff, she can be found fencing, eating little treats, and roaming the woods.
Rachel McKinley is a writer, educator, and mother to four small humans. Her nonfiction explores a variety of themes, including family, longing, and belonging, often through the lens of the natural world. In her spare time, she enjoys running, baking, and watching musicals.
Manuel A. Melendez is a hybrid writer born and partially raised in Camagüey, Cuba. He is getting his MFA in Poetry from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has been published in Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine, WayWords Literary Journal, Apricity Magazine, Dream Noir Magazine, Superstition Review, and Midway Journal. He has received several awards for his writing (across multiple genres), including The 3rd and 4th Annual Derick Burleson Poetry Contest Awards, the E. L. Bartlett Contest for Literary Criticism Award, and The Farthest North Fiction Contest Short Story or Single Chapter Award. He dreams of one day living in a world where poetry can take permanent physical shape, but he settles for a fierce latte, vibrant verses, and being penniless but ravishing on his deathbed.
Tim Ott grew up in rural Iowa, studied at St Olaf College in Minnesota, and received an MA in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Washington. He taught English in China and the Russian Federation, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda, and instructed for several years with the Northwest Outward Bound School in Oregon. He is focusing on fiction and has a goal of creating “laughter through the tears.”
Zeke Shomler earned a Combined MA/MFA from UAF in Fall 2024. He’s now working toward an M.Ed. in Secondary Education. A Pushcart nominee, his poetry has appeared in AGNI, Folio, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Columbia Review, and elsewhere.
About UAF’s Department of English
In the Department of English, students receive not just an intellectual education, but an experiential one as well. UAF graduate programs allow students to live more simply and purposefully, and to focus on the crafts of critical reading and engaged writing. Students prepare to become active teachers, independent thinkers, and fearless writers.
This event is open to the public and free of charge, thanks to the support of Fairbanks Arts members and donors. Click here to learn how you can get involved in supporting Fairbanks Arts programs!
The Bear Gallery is located on the third floor of the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts building in Pioneer Park at 2300 Airport Way, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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