Valuing Differences (BUILD)

Inclusion: Coaching for Individual Growth

CSREG Faculty Colloquium with Elena Machado

Join emerging writers and editors to discuss the ins and outs of publishing in literary periodicals. Please feel free to bring a lunch. This event is a complement to the West Branch reading, the same day at 7pm in Bucknell Hall.Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is the author of the poetry collection So Long the Sky (2018). She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, and is the co-founder of the EmersonWRITES program, a free creative writing program for Boston Public School students.Ji Hyun Joo is a writer raised in San Diego, California and Gyeongi-Do, South Korea. She completed her M.F.A in Fiction at Columbia University, where she is a recipient of the 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and a nominee for the Henfield Prize.Alice Liang is the incoming Associate Poetry Editor of West Branch. A poet based in Brooklyn by way of China and Michigan, she received her MFA in poetry from NYU in 2025.Keri Miller is the incoming Associate Fiction Editor of West Branch. She received her MFA from Florida State University and her PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers where she served as associate editor of Mississippi Review.

BIPP Pizza & Policy on Addiction and Public Health Date: Thursday, September 25th Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Location: Academic West 108 Presented by Professor Judy Grisel (Psychology) and Rose Nyounway '27 Pizza, salad and drinks for all who attend. A Zoom option will also be offered: Meeting ID: 992 7612 1823 Password: 520797 Sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP)

Join three recent Bucknell graduates who went on to pursue the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. Julia Cirillo '22, Amber Cutler '24, and Mercedes Rodriguez '23 will discuss their experiences in their respective MFA programs, including the application process. Please feel free to bring a lunch. Our guests will present a poetry and fiction reading the same day at 7pm in Bucknell Hall.Julia Cirillo has a dual degree in French and creative writing from Bucknell and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Currently, she teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers. She lives in New Jersey.Amber Cutler is pursuing her MFA in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno. She majored in creative writing and psychology at Bucknell, where she received a Julia Fonville Smithson Prize for fiction and interned for West Branch. Mercedes Rodriguez's poetry appears in New England Review, Washington Square Review, New Delta Review, wildness, Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for Best New Poets. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University.

Alumni who majored in International Relations will share about their career paths in different industries, including business, government, and nonprofit.

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CSREG Lecture on caste

CSREG Panel Discussion Moderated by Soundarya Chidambaram