Author of ‘Eileen,’ Ottessa Moshfegh to speak at SNHU’s MFA summer residency

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Author Ottessa Moshfegh

MANCHESTER, NH – Acclaimed author Ottessa Moshfegh is scheduled to speak at this year’s SNHU MFA program summer residency, held annually at the Mountainview Grand Resort hotel.

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“Eileen,” described in an NPR review as “Charmingly disturbing. Delightfully dour. Pleasingly perverse.”

Moshfegh, fiction author from Boston, was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Fence Books published her novella McGlue in 2014. Her novel Eileen was published by Penguin Press in August 2015 and received positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and received the 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

A collection of short stories Homesick for Another World was published in January 2017. Moshfegh is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

About SNHU MFA Residency

During summer and winter residencies, MFA students are immersed in the writer’s life while enjoying spectacular mountain views at the Mountain View Grand. Students attend craft workshops and readings by MFA creative writing faculty, enjoy a workshop and later a reading by the residency’s visiting writer, attend panels and workshops led by members of the advisory board, participate in constructive critiques of their peers’ work, hear readings by graduating students and attend their graduation, applaud open-mic readings by their peers, and take part in a number of social activities, all in a setting that is steeped in beauty and history.

Students begin the program with either the creative writing residency in mid-June, or the winter residency in early January. Each low residency MFA creative writing residency is held entirely at NH’s grand hotel, a perfect setting for students to get to know their faculty and peers, enjoy one-on-one conversations about their work, and participate in the camaraderie and supportive community so unique to this program. The residency fees and tuition cover a private room and bath for each student, as well as a full breakfast and dinner.

 

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Carol Robidoux

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Longtime NH journalist and publisher of ManchesterInkLink.com. Loves R&B, German beer, and the Queen City!